Clear history pane in Spyder

Question

I don't know how many lines are kept for Spyder history, but:

• commands executed 3 months ago have no chance to be searched back to run them again.
• most of the commands in the history are just calls to python files and it's just as easy to reopen the file to run it.
• this long list has to be loaded when the IDE is launched, increasing load time and memory use.

It seems the history tab cannot be cleared using the interface. Spyder documentation is silent on that.

I found this question where the OP wanted to increase the history size. The solution provided was to increase a buffer size:

Entering here a small number (10) and restarting didn't change anything to the tab content. I'm not sure this setting is related to my problem actually. Is there a known solution to this problem?

Answer 1

(Spyder maintainer here) You said

It seems the history tab cannot be cleared using the interface. Spyder documentation is silent on that.

As you correctly guessed, the content of the History pane can't be cleared up. I opened an issue in our docs so we don't forget to mention that.

I found this question where the OP wanted to increase the history size.

That option doesn't have the effect that you'd expect. It only increases/decreases the amount of lines shown inside the IPython console.

The limit of lines shown in the History pane is fixed at 1000 and it's not possible to change it. We will also mention that in our docs.