Reading and changing CIW input line

Hi Pratik,
If you can explain little more about what you are tying to do, probably I can suggest something.
As of now, what I can think of is as follows

1. write a function and set the bindkey to Ctrl+Up to CIW.
2. read the CDS.log file in reverse order.
3. You can use enterString to enter your input in CIW and store in a variable
4. do a pattern match the way you want
5. write into a new file.

As I am not clear about what will be your next step, I am not sure what to do with the output you have.

Thanks,
Amit

Hi Pratik,

Here is a small code which might be helpful.
Have a look

CDSLOG = "/xxx/xxx/cdslog/CDS.log" ; cds log file path. you can give actual cds.log file path of yours.
procedure(searchCommand(CDSLOG)
prog((commandLists inport)
system(sprintf(nil "cp -rf %s %s_temp" CDSLOG CDSLOG)) ; create a local copy of the cds log file as <old file name _temp>
CDSLOG = strcat(CDSLOG "_temp")
inport = infile(CDSLOG)
while(gets(line inport)
if(substring( car(parseString(line "\n")) 2 1) == "i" then ; to check the only lines which are typed or called in CIW
commandLists = append1(commandLists substring( car(parseString(line "\n")) 4))
);if
);while
close(inport)
return(commandLists)
);prog
);procedure

You can set the bindkey with UP arrow for the function searchCommand(CDSLOG)
Finally, commandLists will return a list which will have all the commands which were entered in the CIW.
Now you can play with this list
1. You can create a gui to pop up the list of the commands
2. You can limit the length of the list
3. You can filter some of the commands according to your requirement
4. You can reverse the list
.
.
.
Hope it will help you.

Thanks,
Amit

Hi Patrik,
There are two things that already exist that are close to what you are asking for, but it may depend on which version you are using. ALWAYS STATE THE VERSION YOU ARE USING.

Try this in the CIW:
envGetVal("ui" "ciwNameCompletion")
If it returns "Off" then you have a version that has automatic command completion built-in but turned off. You can try either "Automatic" or "Manual" to test the feature. For automatic, when you start typing in the CIW a pop-up box will display with possible matches, functions are shown in blue (by default) and you can scroll through the matches. For Manual mode the Ctrl-Space key combination (by default) will open the search matches box. You can use 'envSetVal("ui" "ciwNameCompletion" 'cyclic "Manual")' or 'envSetVal("ui" "ciwNameCompletion" 'cyclic "Automatic")' to turn on the feature if it is available in your version (I can't remember when it was added, sorry). The search finds even custom functions that you have created yourself, including those that just have autoloads set but the function is not loaded yet. Look for the variables that control this in the 'ui' .cdsenv file:

more `cds_root virtuoso`/tools/dfII/etc/tools/ui/.cdsenv

The CIW also has a history mechanism built-in and it has been around for years, but you had to turn it on in older versions, but I think it is just on by default now (since at least IC61x?). For example, in combination with the above, you could now try typing "!env" and hit return, and the most recent matching command will execute, in this case it would be the envGetVal() command. There is a section "Repeating Commands from the CIW" in the documentation about it, Virtuoso Design Environment User Guide->Using the Command Interpreter Window->Working With SKILL Commands->Repeating Commands from the CIW.

Try these out and save yourself some coding!

Best regards,

Lawrence.

Hello Amit,

thank you, but this tells me the commands that were already executed. It it part of what I need but I need to autocomplete commands while the user is typing them

BR,

Patrik

Hello Lawrence,

I didn't want to state the version because here we are using many versions and I want to implement a general solution. envGetVal("ui" "ciwNameCompletion") says *WARNING* envGetVal: Could not find variable 'ciwNameCompletion' in tool[.partition] 'ui' with versopm 6.1.6-64b.500.13.2 but it esists in version 6.1.7-64b.500.7
It is a nice feature but it does not searches among the commands I typed in this session.
As an example of what I want, let's say that I typed these three commands

b=1
bc=4
a=3
b=2

now, if I type b= and press ctrl-space, I want only b=1 and b=2 to be displayed

!pattern is also nice, but it searches only for the last command

BR,

Patrik

Hi Patrik,

Did you look at the documentation at all? There is a syntax of "!?pattern" too. But yes, it searches backwards for the most recent entry that matches, so in your example "!b" would repeat the "b=2" entry. I'm sure this is a contrived example, and so in real life the use of the !? syntax could be quite useful. As I said initially, these two features are close to what you were asking for.

Regards,
Lawrence.

Hello Lawrence,

yes I did look at the documentation, but I asked because none of those features implement what I really need. The example I wrote is not contrived, is something I do countless times every day. Let's say that I need to re-type a command that begins with a b character. It might not be the last one, but the 10th last (among the commands that begin with a b) and in between there may be many unrelated commands. Scrolling them with the up key is time consuming.

Bottom line, I need two functions: one that return what is currently written on the input line (before the user presses the enter key) and one that allows me to replace the input line with a string, regardless of what the user has written so fare.

BR,
Patrik

Hi Patrik,

Take a look at "history()" - it lists the previous n commands, so then you can do !number to repeat a numbered command. Hopefully this gets you closer to what you need?

Best regards,

Lawrence.

Hello Lawrence,

It helps, but it lacks a "search" feature. Maybe there is no function to do what I want to do...

BR,
Patrik