# Console view

This view shows the output of a process and allows you to provide keyboard input to a process.

The Console shows three different kinds of text:

- Standard output
- Standard error
- Standard input

You can choose the different colors for these kinds of text on the Run/Debug > Console preference page.

The commands available in the console view are listed below.

Console View Commands
Command | Name | Description | Availability
--- | --- | --- | ---
| Clear Console | Clears the currently active console, and is available as both a view command and a contextual menu item. | Context menu and view action
| Copy | Copies the selected material from the console onto the system clipboard. | Context menu
| Cut | Copies the selected material to the system clipboard and removes it from the console. | Context menu
| Display Selected Console | Realizes a listing of current consoles and allows you to select which one you would like to see. | View action
| Find/Replace | Allows you to search for and replace s specified expression. | Context menu
| Format | Reformats the current stacktrace. This command in only available to stacktrace consoles. | Context menu
| Open Console | Opens a new console of the selected type. | View action
| Open Link | Allows you to follow the hyperlink which was right-clicked on in the current stacktrace. | Context menu
| Paste | Pastes material saved on the system clipboard into the current console. | Context menu
| Pin | Pins the current console to remain on top of all other consoles. | View action
| Preferences... | Realizes the console preferences page, allowing you to customize you consoles. | Context menu
| Remove All Terminated Launches | Removes all of the terminated launches from the current console. | Context menu and view action
| Remove Launch | Removes the current launch from the console. | View action
| Scroll Lock | Changes if scroll lock should be enabled or not in the current console. | Context menu and view action
| Select All | Selects all of the contents of the current console. | Context menu
| Terminate | Terminates the running launch in the current console. | View action

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Changing the appearance of the console view
Stepping through the execution of a program
Run menu actions
Breakpoints view
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