Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
David Fanning wrote: > Phil Williams ... > ... has lost access to his web and ftp sites. He > has also lost the ability to post to newsgroups temporarily. > Since Phil is the temporary keeper of the idl and idl-shell > emacs modes, he wanted to me alert you to his situation. > > He is also looking for someone else to host these emacs > files. He says its a pretty easy job and really only needs > an ftp site. I can't supply a ftp site at the moment, but I do already have the files on our WWW server. For the time being, you can get the files from http://www.mpae.gwdg.de/mpae_RZ/software/idl/ In the Emacs section you will find the original and a patched version of idl.el (1.38 and "1.39") as well as the Jul 97 patched version of idl-shell.el (patches for IDL 5.0 by Chris Chase and David Feynes). Unfortunately, the original, unpatched version of idl-shell is not there. With GNU Emacs 20.2, I have noticed that the IDL mode in Emacs refuses to font-lock (=colorize) the text and also gives an error message about not being able to support Imenu if (and only if?) the Emacs C-mode has loaded in any other buffer. Quite annoying if you are a C programmer as well as IDL programmer. I have never programmed any lisp except my .emacs initialization file, so I haven't been able to look into the problem. Best regards Kevin -- Kevin Ivory Tel: +49 5556 979 434 Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Fax: +49 5556 979 240 Max-Planck-Str. 2 mailto:Kevin.Ivory@linmpi.mpg.de D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, GERMANY http://www.gwdg.de/~kivory2/