CommandPanel

CommandPanel.ipf provides an alternative command-line interface for Igor Pro．

Features

• bash-like alias expansion, brace expansion, and pathname expansion.
• complete operation, function, data folder, wave, variable, string name.
• filter outputs or completion candidates with words (regular expressions)．

Expansion

Execute commands by pressing Enter．If one puss Enter without input, the command history is displayed．

Alias Expansion

alias cp=Duplicate
cp/O :wave :wave_copy

Brace Expansion

NewDataFolder sample{A,B}_{1..2}

This is expanded as follows.

NewDataFolder sampleA_1
NewDataFolder sampleA_2
NewDataFolder sampleB_1
NewDataFolder sampleB_2

Pathname expansion

You can use wildcard * in pathnames.

Display
AppendToGraph :*:wave*

Parenthesis completion

You can omit () at the first user function in each line.

DoSomething()
CompareSomething(a,abs(b))
PrintSomething("test")

These functions can be called as belows.

DoSomething
CompareSomething a,abs(b) // You cannot omit () at the second function.
PrintSomething test       // When the function take just a string parameter, you can omit "" too. 

Completion

Your input is completed by pushing Shift+Enter.

This procedure complete operation and function name. Words beginning with : are completed as pathnames.

When you push Shift+Enter without input, the output or complete candidates are scrolled down. (You can scroll up with Alt+Enter in Mac.)

Filtering

You can filter the outputs or completion candidates by pushing Shift+Enter with an input beginning with a blank character ` `.

Regular expressions can be used for this filtering.