The show commands are used to list the names of variables, signals, macros, and on conditions. They may also be used to show the contents of interactively entered "on" blocks and interactively entered macros. The "showv" command, or its alias "ls" is used to display the names of all variables, on conditions and interactively entered macros. Each variable will be displayed along with its current value. The name of each "on" block will also displayed with its trigger condition. If the on block is deactivated, it will be so indicated. This list includes both compiled variables and on conditions as well as those that were defined using the interactive interface. (Unlabeled "on" blocks will not be listed.)
The "shows" command is used to display the names of all signals defined in the circuit description. The output of the "shows" and "showv" commands appears in dictionary order, which is not necessarily alphabetic. This problem will be corrected in the future. The showv and showon commands are illustrated below.
showv
shows
ls
The "showon" statement is used to display the contents of an interactively specified on block. (The contents of compiled on blocks cannot be displayed.) It is specified as follows.
showon <on-block-name>
Similarly the "showm" statement is used to display the contents of an interactively specified macro.
showm <macro-name>
The output of these commands is the list of statments that comprise either the on-block or the macro. For complex commands such as "while," "if," and "for" "goto" statements inserted by the parser will appear in this list. The parser breaks "for" statements into two "set" statements and a "while" statement (and several "goto" statements), so "for" statements will look peculiar in this list.