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Abbreviations

      Every command can be abbreviated. Note that, if the abbreviation is ambiguous, TV takes the first matching alias or if not existant the first matching command. The order of the builtin commands is in most cases alphabetical, but not necessarily. The order of the aliases is given by the order of their definition. To see the order of commands and aliases in a given menu, type ?.

For example if you plot a spectrum and therefore want to change the frame width to get inscriptions at the y-scale, you can set them to 9, 9, 3 and 3 for the left, right, top and bottom frame with the command:

tv > window setup frame width 9 9 3 3

Your minimum set of characters to abbreviate this command is:

tv > w se f w 9 9 3 3

By the way these are the default frame width values for the plot window which you can create with:

tv > w c s plot  



Andreas Fitzler
7/13/2000