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These two tabs of the Options dialog allows setting values relevant to the IDE progamming environment.
The Starting Up group: items in this group relate to how Lisp starts up. The items are:
nil
) value returned by
start-in-allegro-directory. Checking
this box is usually only necessary if you start by double-clicking a
dxl or exe file or by a customer Emacs command.
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:
The Miscellaneous group: items in this group concern various miscellaneous things which do not fit elsewhere. The items are:
nil
, which means to show all descendent or ancestor
classes. See class-graph-initial-depth.
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 Windows contains the IDE menus and toolbars along with the main IDE status bar. The items are:
*print-level*
when printing status bar messages.
See lisp-message-print-level.
*print-length*
when printing status bar
messages. See lisp-message-print-length.
The Standard Toolbar Icons multi-item-list: this control allows you to customize the toolbar on the left of the Project Window. The Project Windows contains the IDE menus and toolbars:
The toolbars are on the left under the menus. 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 by the View | Extended Toolbar command. If you change which icons are selected and apply the changes, the toolbars are redisplayed according to you 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:
*print-circle*
in a backtrace. See backtrace-print-circle.
*print-level*
in a backtrace. See backtrace-print-level.
*print-length*
in a backtrace. See backtrace-print-length.
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Documentation for Allegro CL version 6.2. This page is new in the 6.2 release.
Created 2002.2.26.
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