Console window

The Console Window can be called up or sent to the background in the editor by using the TAB key. It provides a colon prompt, immediate mode and access to the old line oriented editor from KCML 3.2. It is also possible to debug using commands. The window is re-sizable.

Editing in this window is line oriented using the keystrokes of the old editor and imposes the same line length restrictions of 1900 characters per line.

Access to the operating system's command line processor is available by prefixing a shell command with a ! character.
For example:

:!pwd
/user1/myapp/home

An interactive command shell can be started by just entering !

:!
$ cd /tmp
$ df -k .
Filesystem    1024-blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd3           851968    242236   72%      108     1% /tmp
$ exit
:

When running under the Connection Manager, access to this interactive shell is only allowed if the PSEUDOTTY environment variable is set to true.