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How to escape unmatched parenthesis or something else in CIW?

greatqs

I'm doing CIW interactive scripting and somehow the CIW get stuck: It's not responding to my command after hit "enter" (if I hit "1+2"  then "enter", it respond nothing than "3" as nominal expected.

It behaves like some parenthesis get unmatched but I'm not sure. I tried "]" as found on below link and it doesn't work.  

Is there anyone know how to get out of this without restart the whole icfb session? Thanks!

  • I'm assuming you must be using an old version because recent IC61 versions have highlighting in the CIW which makes this pretty clear.

    Assuming it's (say) IC5141, try entering "]

    (Double quote followed by close square bracket).

    Andrew

  • Andrew,

    Thank you for your feedback. I'm using recent IC617 and CIW has syntax highlighting. I'm copying and paste code segment from my script file for experiments and somehow it get messed up.

    The problem is if somehow it get stucked by unmatched parenthesis (or something) else how can I escape (in IC61) and I tried "]" it doesn't work.Is there any other tricks?

    Thanks.

  • I can get it messed up if on Options->User Preferences I have "Enter Key Executes Command" unchecked. If it's checked, then ctrl-C gets you out of trouble. I did manage (by unchecking the option) to find that no matter what I entered - either quote marks, or ] or both that I couldn't get out - and ctrl-C didn't help.

    When I got stuck in this mode though, I then brought up the User Preferences, checked the "Enter Key Executes Command" and then ctrl-C in the CIW. However, now I seem to be stuck again.

    I've not had this issue however when I keep "Enter Key Executes Command" checked (which is the default) - what is your setting for this?

    I'd like to know so that I can report this to R&D.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Andrew,

    Thanks for checking this. My environment has "Options->User Preferences -> Enter Key Executes Command" unchecked by default. I tried check this when I'm stuck and can not get out like you. I will then modify my environment setting to bring this checked by default.

    BTW, could you please let me know what's the .cdsinit and .cdsenv command to modify/override the default setting?

    Thanks

  • I filed CCR 1792966 to get this fixed.
  • Andrew,

    Could you please let me know what's the .cdsinit and .cdsenv command to modify/override the default setting?

    Thanks

  • I also just realised that you have to use shift-Enter to enter commands when you're in the mode with Execute on Enter turned off. It breaks when you do a control-C in this mode, but it does seem to fix when I toggle the mode off and on again. Sometimes I need to hit shift-enter and other times I don't . Not quite sure of the logic...

    Anyway, the .cdsinit entry is:

    envSetVal("ui" "ciwCmdExecuteOnEnter" 'boolean t)

    and the .cdsenv entry is:

    ui ciwCmdExecuteOnEnter boolean t

    Note that t is actually the default, so you must have it turned off somewhere in your environment.

    Regards

    Andrew

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