Better Console

For anyone using SKSE64 this mod is now included in Linthar's More Informative Console.

Better Console expands the console to full screen, increases the size of the viewable history, adds new key options, allows you to set your own aliases for commands you frequently use, and doesn't add repeats of the same command to the command history, adds commands to clear the console and to search the viewable history.

THE NEW COMMANDS

clear - clears the visible console history

?TERM - search up through the history for TERM

/TERM - starting at the top, search down through the history for TERM

? - repeat the last search up

/ - repeate the last search down

THE NEW KEYS

PgUp - scrolls up one screenful (just like the original)

PgDn - scrolls down one screenful (just like the original)

Shift + PgUp - scrolls up 5 screenfuls

Shift + PgDn - scrolls down 5 screenfuls

Home - scrolls to the top of the history list

End - scrolls to the bottom of the history list

Shift + Home - scroll up to the next line matching the current search

Shift + End - scroll down to the next line matching the current search

ALIASES CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

To set your own options simply rename the console_example.cfg file included here to console.cfg and edit it with any text editor. (It's named console_example.cfg and you need to rename it to console.cfg so that your mod manager won't overwrite any changes you might make.)

Aliases can be set in the console.cfg file and the one provided comes with two examples. When you type a command into the console the first word of that command will be compared to the list of aliases. If there's a match that word will be replaced by the result of that alias. For example the example file has the alias "firewood=player.additem 6f993" so if you enter the console command "firewood 8" you will add 8 pieces of firewood to your inventory.

You can type the word "help" by itself to see the list of aliases. If you want the old behavior of help you can add a space before or after the word help or add any of the other options help expects.