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Navigate and Edit Within the Command
Window
You can navigate and edit text in the command window to correct or repeat
commands. Use the standard keys:
■ UP, DOWN, LEFT ARROW, and RIGHT ARROW
■ INS, DEL
■ PAGE UP, PAGE DOWN
■ HOME, END
■ BACKSPACE
You can repeat any command used in the current session by cycling through
the commands in the command window with
UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW
and pressing
ENTER. By default, pressing CTRL+C copies highlighted text to
the Clipboard. Pressing
CTRL+V pastes text from the Clipboard to the text or
command window.
If you right-click in the command window or text window, AutoCAD dis-
plays a shortcut menu from which you can access the six most recently used
commands, copy selected text or the entire command history, paste text, and
access the Options dialog box.
For most commands, a command line with two or three lines of previous
prompts, called the command history, is sufficient for viewing and editing.
To see more than one line of command history, you can scroll through the
history or resize the command window by dragging its border. For com-
mands with text output, such as
LIST, you might need a larger command
window, or you can press
F2 to use the text window.
Use the Text Window
The text window is a window similar to the command window in which you
can enter commands and view prompts and messages. The text window dis-
plays a complete command history for the current AutoCAD session. Use the
text window to view lengthy output of commands such as LIST, which dis-
plays detailed information about objects you select. To move forward and
backward in the command history, you can click the scroll arrows along the
right edge of the window.