"Limit Run/Debug Console Output" setting is gone in IntelliJ 8.0 : IDEA-20729

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Project	IntelliJ IDEA
Priority	Normal
Type	Usability Problem
Fix versions	No Fix versions
State	Won't fix
Assignee	Dmitry Jemerov
Subsystem	IDE Configuration
Affected versions	No Affected versions
Fixed in build	No Fixed in build

Created by Thomas Morgner
3 years ago (18 Nov 2008 19:21)
Updated by Ivo Šmíd
2 weeks ago (27 Jan 2012 12:25)
Jira: IDEA-20729
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IDEA-20729 "Limit Run/Debug Console Output" setting is gone in IntelliJ 8.0

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Relates to:
IDEA-63980

The "Limit Run/Debug Console Output" was available in the "General" tab of the configuration dialog. It is no longer available in 8.0 and the console's buffer can not be configured anymore.

When dumping some large output to the console, the output is shortened. In Idea 7.0.x there was a setting to increase the console buffer to a reasonable high size from the tiny 2kb or 4kb the buffer has by default. With IDEA 8.0, I have to resort to dumping everything to a file to make simple diffs. That's ugly and I'd rather go back to 7.0 than to continue that style.

Issue was resolved

Dmitry Jemerov

18 Nov 2008 19:26

3 years ago

The buffer size can be specified by editing the idea.cycle.buffer.size value in idea.properties. The default buffer size is not 2k or 4k, but rather 1 megabyte.

Thomas Morgner

18 Nov 2008 20:31

3 years ago

Great. Knowing how to tweak that setting solves my problem.

Nick Pratt

24 Dec 2008 19:50

3 years ago

You have to put this back - this is just not funny. If you are going to default to anything it should be that the limit is disabled.

Please reinstate this GUI option. It makes the console useless for debug output if its arbitrarily limited, and being forced to shutdown, edit and restart to change this is a serious backwards step.

Benoit Heurter

19 Aug 2009 17:53

2 years ago

I also wish to 'vote' to put back this option. It's not funny to close the IDE and manually edit this option.

It's sad... and I even don't understand why this option has been removed from the configuration panel... Is a technical issue behind this decision ?

Eugene Kirpichov

17 Mar 2010 15:10

22 months ago

I also think this feature should be re-added. 1Mb is often not enough.

Ivo Šmíd

27 Jan 2012 12:25

2 weeks ago