empty the console

[ExCaL]

Hallo,can someone help me with how to cleanup the console textfiles?

When i do /clear,then yes the console is empty offcourse,but its about all the old messages that i send/recieved days ago.

After /clear the console is empty but when i press the uparrow they still come back.

Cant find a map called silent/etconsole.log to clean that so maybe theres a special setting or command to do it?

thx again ExC

 

[Aardappel]

You can use /logfile 1 to start logging, and /logfile 0 to stop logging. 

[Gengis]

That is normal. ./clear clears what you currently have in your console. But ET still continues to send messages to the console.

 

 

"logfile" allows you to save the console so you can search in it offline.

 

Gengis

Edited March 28 by Gengis

[captnconcrete]

/cg_console 0

 

Edited April 2 by RedBaird
typo

[Gengis]

On 3/30/2026 at 11:34 AM, RedBaird said:

I just went by Jay#1 and Silent#1 to make sure.  Unless that is an ETLegacy cvar? 

I didnt find any CG cvar in ETL that could stop the messages sent to the console.

 

Gengis

Edited March 31 by Gengis

[RedBaird]

On 3/28/2026 at 7:23 AM, ExCaL said:

all the old messages that i send/recieved days ago.

After /clear the console is empty but when i press the uparrow they still come back.

 

The /clear will clear the console, but the uparrow will allow you to scroll back up the lines that YOU had sent.  That is an easy way to resend messages or commands, especially if you want to change them and send them again.  (in ET 2.6b 😄 )

 

[Drempa]

so basically u dont want anything to show when u press up/down arrows while console opened? 

i dont get why u want that lol but u can find those saved commands in etlegacy/etl-history , can be opened and edited with notepad or any text editor program

[captnconcrete]

is it not /com_allowconsole 0

 

i guess this just switches it to cntrl alt tilda. instead of tilda.

Edited April 1 by captnconcrete

[RedBaird]

16 hours ago, Drempa said:

edited with notepad or any text editor program

 

You can actually scroll UP the line you want and then edit it in console itself.  I do that with a lot of my typos, especially the commands and "/set cvar something". ++ in 2.6b, that is.  😄 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 2 by RedBaird

[RedBaird]

16 hours ago, Drempa said:

find those saved commands in etlegacy/etl-history , can be opened and edited with notepad or any text editor program

 

Does that mean that in ETL, you can copy those lines from the History and paste them into an Editor?  

 

I really should install an instance of ETL, to learn the 'new ways', too!  😄 

 

 

[Gengis]

1 hour ago, RedBaird said:

 

Does that mean that in ETL, you can copy those lines from the History and paste them into an Editor? 

For this you have to set logfile=1.

That saves the console.

The file is deleted when ETL is started again.

So you need to rename the file when you close ETL.

Thay way you can search it offline.

 

AFAIK that works the same way with ET 2.60b.

 

Gengis

Edited April 2 by Gengis

[RedBaird]

15 minutes ago, Gengis said:

AFAIK that works the same way with ET 2.60b.

 

Yes.  Sometimes, when ET 2.6b is still running, I go to my etmain folder, copy the etconsole.log file and paste it as a new file for later use.  I change the name of the copy to indicate Why The Hell I Did that.  😄  

 

ADDED:  Oh, just one thing.  ET does not write all of what is seen in the console immediately.  It seems to make a 'cache' and write to the file in 'chunks' of text.  If I do the copy, paste and save too soon after what I wanted to save happened, it might not appear in the file yet. 😄  I have to open the etconsole.log file and check the end of it to be sure I got what I wanted, THEN copy & paste.  😄 

Edited April 2 by RedBaird

[Shoresy]

@RedBaird seeing ETL for first time