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The IDE tabs on the Options dialog

These two tabs of the Options dialog allows setting values relevant to the IDE progamming environment.

On tab IDE 1

The Starting Up group: items in this group relate to how Lisp starts up. The items are:

The Exiting group: items in this group relate to what Lisp does when you tell it to exit. The items are:

The History Lengths group: items in this group specify how much interaction history of various types should be stored. The items are:

The Optional Dialogs group: items in this group specify whether modal dialogs (which require user action) should appear under certain conditions. These dialogs are enabled by default to provide helpful feedback, but once you are very familiar with the interface you may want to turn one or more of them off in order to work more quickly. The items are:

On tab IDE 2

The Miscellaneous group: items in this group concern various miscellaneous things which do not fit elsewhere. The items are:

The Status Bar Printing group: the items allow specification of the print level and print length in the main IDE status bar on the Project Window. The Project Window contains the IDE menus and toolbars along with the main IDE status bar. The items are:

The Standard Toolbar Icons multi-item-list: this control allows you to customize the toolbar on the Project Window. The Project Window contains the IDE menus and toolbars:

The multi-item list shows the various possible toolbar icons either selected or not (all the illustrated ones are selected; you would have to scroll down to see unselected ones). All unselected icons are on the Extended Toolbar, displayed (as a floating palette) by the View | Extended Toolbar command. If you change which icons are selected and apply the changes, the toolbars are redisplayed according to your choices. A gap is the vertical line dividing groups of toolbar icons.

The Backtrace Printing group: items in this group control the printing of backtraces in the Debug window after an error. The items are:


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The object described on this page has been modified in the 8.2 release; see the Release Notes.
Created 2016.6.21.

ToCDocOverviewCGDocRelNotesFAQIndexPermutedIndex
Allegro CL version 8.2
Object described on page has changed in 8.2.
8.1 version