TkCon: Special Bindings

Most of the bindings are the same as for the Text widget. Some have been modified to make sure that the integrity of the console is maintained. Others have been added to enhance the usefulness of the console. Only the modified or new bindings are listed here.

Control-x or Cut (on Sparc5 keyboards)

Cut

Control-c or Copy (on Sparc5 keyboards)

Copy

Control-v or Paste (on Sparc5 keyboards)

Paste

Insert

Insert (duh).

Up

Goes up one level in the commands line history when cursor is on the prompt line, otherwise it moves through the buffer

Down

Goes down one level in the commands line history when cursor is on the last line of the buffer, otherwise it moves through the buffer

Control-p

Goes up one level in the commands line history

Control-n

Goes down one level in the commands line history

Tab

Tries to expand file path names, then variable names, then proc names.

Escape

Tries to expand file path names.

Control-P

Tries to expand procedure names. The procedure names will be those that are actually in the attached interpreter (unless nontcl is specified, in which case it always does the lookup in the default slave interpreter).

Control-V

Tries to expand variable names (those returned by [info vars]). It's search behavior is like that for procedure names.

Return or Enter

Evaluates the current command line if it is a complete command, otherwise it just goes to a new line

Control-a

Go to the beginning of the current command line

Control-l

Clear the entire console buffer

Control-r

Searches backwards in the history for a command starting with the current command line. Repeatable to search farther back.

Control-s

As above, but searches forward (only useful if you searched too far back).

Control-t

Transposes characters

Control-u

Clear the current command line

Control-z

Saves current command line in a buffer that can be retrieved with another Control-z. If the current command line is empty, then any saved command is retrieved without being overwritten, otherwise the current contents get swapped with what's in the saved command buffer.

Control-Key-1

Attaches console to the console's slave interpreter

Control-Key-2

Attaches console to the console's master interpreter

Control-Key-3

Attaches console to main TkCon interpreter

Control-A

Pops up the "About" dialog

Control-N

Creates a new console. Each console has separate state, including it's own widget hierarchy (it's a slave interpreter).

Control-q

Close the current console OR Quit the program (depends on the value of TKCON(slaveexit)).

Control-w

Closes the current console. Closing the main console will exit the program (something has to control all the slaves...)