Changing Recent Input options in the Right click menu...

This is an issue that came up in Support today regarding right click functionality. The user was having trouble using the “recent input” list from the right click menu. When they right clicked in the drawing space, they would see all the other options, but not this one.

So I did a bit of research and came up with a few options to check, the first was something called CMDINPUTHISTORYMAX and determines the number of commands your system saves before it starts forgetting them. This is by default set to 20 and I think you can set it to a max of 50.

The customer's system had this set properly, so we moved on to the INPUTHISTORYMODE. Now this is apparently a variable from way back, which ‘Controls the content and location of the display of a history of user input’ and needs to be set to 15 to register maximum Recent inputs. Checking this variable showed that it was actually set to 4, and when we changed it to 15, the Recent Input option showed up:

Also, after messing about with the variable a bit I’ve discovered that if you change the INPUTHISTORYMODE to 10, the Recent Input will show up, but it won’t log the command unless you use it 3 times. Just some more obscure AutoCAD knowledge that I’ve managed to acquire which might save the world one day!

Daniel Childs, Ideate Inc