How do I increase the capacity of the Eclipse output console?

Question

Even with the "scroll lock" option enabled for the Eclipse console, eventually it overfills and starts auto-scrolling on me.

Is there some way of increasing the capacity of the console so that it stores more lines? I wasn't able to find the option.

Answer 1

Open the Windows > Preferences menu.

Expand the Run/Debug > Console preferences.

Set the Console buffer size (characters) to something much bigger. 1000000 is the upper limit (about 1MB of text). Or just uncheck the Limit console output.

Answer 2

Under Window > Preferences, go to the Run/Debug > Console section, then you should see an option "Limit console output." You can uncheck this or change the number in the "Console buffer size (characters)" text box below.

(This is in Galileo, CDT)