To Work With Command Window History

How to customize the appearance of the command history.

Control the Display of Recent Input

  1. At the Command prompt, enter INPUTHISTORYMODE.
  2. Enter a sum of one or more of the following values:
    • 0. No history of recent input is displayed.
    • 1. History of recent input is displayed at the Command prompt with access through Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys.
    • 2. History of recent input for the current command is displayed in the shortcut menu.
    • 4. History of recent input for all commands in the current session is displayed in the shortcut menu.
    • 8. Markers for recent input of point locations are displayed in the drawing.

    The default value is 15.

  3. (Optional) To specify how many values entered at a Command prompt are remembered and displayed as recent input, enter CMDINPUTHISTORYMAX.