How do I increase the capacity of the Eclipse output console?

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Uri picture Uri · May 13, 2010 · Viewed 163.5k times · Source

Even with the "scroll lock" option enabled for the Eclipse console, eventually it overfills and starts auto-scrolling on me.

Is there some way of increasing the capacity of the console so that it stores more lines? I wasn't able to find the option.

Answer

detly picture detly · May 13, 2010

Under Window > Preferences, go to the Run/Debug > Console section, then you should see an option "Limit console output." You can uncheck this or change the number in the "Console buffer size (characters)" text box below.

(This is in Galileo, Helios CDT, Kepler, Juno, Luna, Mars, Neon, Oxygen and 2018-09)

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