Installation guide

Preferences for Comm and History
Preferences for Command Histor y
In this section...
“Introduction” on page 3-59
“Settings” on page 3-59
“Saving” on page 3-60
“See Also” on page 3-60
Introduction
Using Command History prefere nces, you can choose to exclude statements
from the
history.m file and specify how often to save it. The history.m
file is used for both the Command History window and statement recall in
the Command Window.
To set preferences for the
history.m file, select File > Preferences,andthen
select Command History in the Preferences dialog box.
Settings
Specify the types of statements to exclude from the history.m file. Note that
when you exclude statements from the
history.m file, you cannot recall them
in the Command Window as described in “ Recalling Previous Lines” on p age
3-19, nor can you view them in the Command His tory window.
Save Exit/Quit Commands
Selectthecheckboxtosaveexit and quit commands in the history.m file.
SaveConsecutiveDuplicateCommands
Select the check box if you want consecutive executions of the same statement
to be saved to the
history.m file.
Fo r example, with this o ption selected, ru n
magic(5),andthenrunmagic(5)
again. The history.m file saves two consecutive entries for magic(5).With
this option cleared, for the same example, the command history file saves only
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