To Perform an Associative Search of the Console Window History (Visual LISP IDE)

You can quickly find a line of code executed in the Console window using an associative search.

Note: The Visual LISP IDE is available on Windows only.

1. In Visual LISP, at the Console window prompt, enter the text you want to locate.
2. Press Tab.

   Visual LISP searches for the last text you entered that begins with the entered text. If Visual LISP does not find a match, the entered text is highlight and the text is not completed.

Example

This example expects the following text to have been previously entered in the Visual LISP Console window.

(setq origin (getpoint "\nOrigin of inyn sign: "))
(setq radius (getdist "\nRadius of inyn sign: " origin))
(setq half-r (/ radius 2))
(setq origin-x (car origin))
(command "._CIRCLE" origin radius)

1. In Visual LISP, at the Console window prompt, type (command.
2. Press Tab.

   Visual LISP completes the entered text with (command "._CIRCLE" origin radius).