| Allegro CL version 8.2 Unrevised from 8.1 to 8.2. 8.1 version |
The Recent menu allows editing or loading recently-used projects, files, and source code definitions by simply selecting them from a history list rather than re-browsing for them from scratch. This is especially useful for retrieving things that were being used in the previous invocation of lisp, since they are no longer present upon restarting Lisp.
The number of items in each submenu is the value of the recent-limit configuration property.
The submenu for each history list will be unavailable (grayed out) if there is nothing in the history for that type of item. This will be the case in a freshly installed Lisp, or in a fresh invocation of Lisp if the prefs.cl file was deleted (since the history lists are kept there along with the configuration options).
If a submenu contains the same file name more than once, this indicates distinct files in different directories. To find out which file is which, hold the mouse briefly over the submenu until the tooltip appears with the full pathname for the menu-item currently under the mouse. (The tooltip delay is controlled by the menu-tooltip-delay configuration property, which defaults to 1500 milliseconds.)
The items on the menu are:
Selecting one of the projects loads it for general use in the IDE.
A project may be loaded initially either with the File | Load menu command or by calling the function load-project. Any number of projects may be loaded simultaneously in the IDE for testing or for use as utilities, though only a single project may be the current project, and thus opened for development.
Note that this particular Recent submenu will not retain its history from one Lisp session to another, unlike the other Recent submenus. This is due to problems with reloading function name symbols into a fresh lisp where the symbol packages no longer exist. The history is still available within a given Lisp session though.
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This page was not revised from the 8.1 page.
Created 2010.1.21.
| Allegro CL version 8.2 Unrevised from 8.1 to 8.2. 8.1 version |