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| Re: IDLWAVE mode for emacs [message #27467 is a reply to message #27375] |
Tue, 23 October 2001 01:33  |
Phillip David
Messages: 36
Registered: April 1999
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John-David Smith wrote:
> The only thing IDLWAVE doesn't do under Windows is run IDL as a
> sub-process. All of the editing, keyword/routine completion, syntax
> coloring, help lookup, shadow detection, etc. stuff is available,
> as far as I know. For someone used to IDLDE, it doesn't have as
> much of the functionality up front" (and in your way). Maybe you
> need to read the tutorial? That said, you will be happier
> playing with it on your Linux box. Certain features rely on
> interacting with the IDL shell (such as, "which routines are
> compiled", etc.).
I wasn't seeing most of those things. In particular, I wasn't seeing
the colored syntax, and couldn't use keyword completion. When I
tried the tutorial that had been posted on the newsgroup, it wouldn't
complete my "endfor" statement. I'll look into this more tomorrow.
Again, thanks for the help.
Phillip
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| Re: IDLWAVE mode for emacs [message #27469 is a reply to message #27375] |
Mon, 22 October 2001 20:10 |
John-David T. Smith
Messages: 384
Registered: January 2000
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Phillip David wrote:
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> JD;
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> Thanks for the older version. I'm trying out IDLWAVE mode on a windows
> machine :-( because that's what I have to work on right now. I have a
> Linux box elsewhere that I play on as well, and I'm hoping to use it
> there in the future. I thought I should get used to it.
That's actually the current release, which is a few months old.
> But, as I'm trying it out, I'm quickly discovering that under Windows,
> it doesn't DO much :-(
The only thing IDLWAVE doesn't do under Windows is run IDL as a sub-process.
All of the editing, keyword/routine completion, syntax coloring, help lookup,
shadow detection, etc. stuff is available, as far as I know. For someone used
to IDLDE, it doesn't have as much of the functionality "up front" (and in your
way). Maybe you need to read the tutorial? That said, you will be happier
playing with it on your Linux box. Certain features rely on interacting with
the IDL shell (such as, "which routines are compiled", etc.).
JD
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| Re: IDLWAVE mode for emacs [message #27472 is a reply to message #27375] |
Mon, 22 October 2001 16:31 |
Phillip David
Messages: 36
Registered: April 1999
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JD;
Thanks for the older version. I'm trying out IDLWAVE mode on a windows
machine :-( because that's what I have to work on right now. I have a
Linux box elsewhere that I play on as well, and I'm hoping to use it
there in the future. I thought I should get used to it.
But, as I'm trying it out, I'm quickly discovering that under Windows,
it doesn't DO much :-(
I guess that's the price we pay for having a highly integrated GUI
development environment.
Phillip
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| Re: IDLWAVE mode for emacs [message #27473 is a reply to message #27375] |
Mon, 22 October 2001 15:29 |
John-David T. Smith
Messages: 384
Registered: January 2000
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Phillip David wrote:
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> I just went looking for the IDLWAVE mode for emacs (looking at
> http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~dominik/Tools/idlwave/), and found that
> the host was not reachable. Is it just down temporarily, or has it been
> moved? Does anyone know? And if it's just down, is there a mirror
> somewhere that I can use to get the mode from?
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This does happen on occassion, but is usually cleared up within a few
hours (I think it's a name server problem). I assure you the site is
still there, and might even sometime soon have a partial workaround for
the lack of true v5.5 manuals within IDLWAVE context help, routine info,
and keyword/routine completion. I see the gap widening.
Try again, and if you still have no luck, try:
http://isc.astro.cornell.edu/~jdsmith/files/
Here you'll find the tarballs for version 4.9.
JD
P.S. GNU Emacs 21 was officially released today, and will offer a
bundled IDLWAVE. While I haven't used it yet, I know there are some
features (like glyph marking of break-point lines), which will work in
IDLWAVE for the first time (at least on GNU Emacs). As always, see
Carsten's site for the latest and greatest.
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