Quitting IDL

To quit IDL, do one of the following:

Enter the EXIT command at the IDL command prompt.

If you are running the IDL Workbench, select the Exit option from the File menu.

Under Microsoft Windows, press Alt+F4.

Under UNIX or MacOS X, if you use IDL's command-line mode, press Ctrl+D as the first character in command-line mode causes IDL to exit back to the operating system. The EXIT procedure has the same function. If Ctrl+D is not the first character, it simply ends the input line as if a return had been entered.

Note
When using IDL's command-line mode under UNIX or MacOS X, you can normally press Ctrl+Z to suspend IDL and return you to the shell process without exiting IDL. After completing any shell commands, type fg to return IDL to the foreground. Although the UNIX suspend character can be changed by the user outside of IDL, this is rarely done. For the purposes of this manual, we assume the default convention.