Interactive Console
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Important notes
- Python console appears as a tool window every time you choose the corresponding command on the menu.
- An interactive console is divided into two panes: the lower pane serves for user input, the upper pane displays results and messages.
- Use up and down arrow keys to browse through the history of executed commands, and repeat the desired ones.
- Python console is available for both local and remote interpreters.
- Color and font scheme of a console is configurable on the Console Colors and Console Fonts pages of the Color Scheme editor settings.
Toolbar
Item | Tooltip and shortcut | Description |
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Rerun console Ctrl+F5 | Click this button to terminate the current process and launch the new one. | |
Stop Ctrl+F2 | Click this button to stop the current process. Clicking the button once invokes soft kill allowing the application to catch the | |
Close Ctrl+Shift+F4 | Click this button to close the selected tab of the Run tool window and terminate the current process. | |
Execute Current Statement Enter. | Click this button to execute the command at caret, entered in the input pane of the console. | |
Help F1 | Use this icon or shortcut to open the corresponding help page. | |
Show variables | Click this button to show in a separate pane the variables declared in the console. Right-click on a variable in this pane reveals a context menu. | |
Browse History Ctrl+Alt+E | Use this icon or shortcut to open a dialog that shows all the statements that you have run for the corresponding data source. See also, Executing auto-memorized statements. | |
Attach Debugger | Attaches the debugger process to the console. | |
New Console | Click this button to start a new console session. |
Context menu commands
Command | Shortcut | Description |
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Compare with Clipboard | Show selection in the console and contents of the Clipboard in the Differences viewer. | |
Create Gist | Choose this command to create a Git Gist. | |
Clear All | Choose this item on the context menu to delete all messages from the upper part of the console. |
Last modified: 28 March 2018