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<div><h1>running Macaulay2 in a terminal window</h1>
<div><p>Some answers in Macaulay2 can be very wide, but many of them will be wrapped appropriately to fit in the width of a terminal window. Macaulay2 can successfully be used in a terminal window if care is taken not to display very wide objects, but most users will prefer to use the interface provided with emacs or with texmacs.</p>
<p>Macaulay2 uses the readline library and the history library to handle user input in a terminal window. The readline user interface documentation is available at <a href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html">http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html</a>. It can also be read with the command <tt>info readline</tt>. The history user interface documentation is available at <a href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/history.html#SEC1">http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/history.html#SEC1</a>. It can also be read with the command <tt>info history</tt>.</p>
<p>Name completion is implemented. Press the <tt>TAB</tt> key to automatically complete names of identifiers that have been only partially typed, if possible. Press <tt>TAB</tt> a second time to get a list of the possible completions when multiple choices exist.</p>
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