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In the lower half of the gmixvm
main window, you will find a
command text entry and, above it, an echo area. These widgets offer you
the same functionality as its CLI counterpart, mixvm
(see mixvm
, the MIX computer simulator). You can issue almost all mixmv
commands at the
gmixvm
’s command prompt in order to manipulate the MIX virtual
machine. Please refer to See mixvm
, the MIX computer simulator, for a description of these
commands, and to See Getting started, for a tutorial on using the MIX
virtual machine. The command prompt offers command line completion for
partially typed commands using the TAB key; e.g., if you type
lo TAB
the command is automatically completed to load
. If multiple
completions are available, they will be shown in the echo area. Thus,
typing
p TAB
will produce the following output on the echo area:
Completions: pc psym preg pflags pall pmem
which lists all the available commands starting with p
. In
addition, the command prompt maintains a history of typed commands,
which can be recovered using the arrow up and down keys. As mentioned
above, a file containing previous sessions’ commands is stored in the
configuration directory ~/.mdk, and reloaded every time you start
gmixvm
.
You can change the font used to display the issued commands and the
messages in the echo area using the Settings->Change font->Command prompt
and Settings->Change font->Command log
menu commands.
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