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Re: Multiple journal files on linux [message #31305 is a reply to message #31108] Mon, 24 June 2002 06:59 Go to previous message
R.Bauer is currently offline  R.Bauer
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Mark McGrath wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Is there a way of creating a different journal file for each IDL
> session that I start? I tend to do a lot of command line editing first
> before I am happy to put code in a procedure/function and I tend to
> forget what I have done after several weeks. Journal files are usually
> small so storing them would not really be a problem (though a simple
> script could be written to remove old files or even archive them!).
>
> I know about the history recall available in IDLWAVE, but here we have
> a linux cluster, so I could be running IDL on several different
> machines over a period of time (or several sessions on the same
> machine) and from experience I think it is the last IDLWAVE session
> that is ended that becomes the history file.
>
> Obviously if the fisrt bit could be sorted then it would be trivial to
> incorpoate it into IDLWAVE (I guess)!
>
> Sl�n, Mark.


Dear Mark,

I am not sure if it would help to have several different journals

To begin journaling to the file myjournal.pro, enter:JOURNAL,
'myjournal.pro'

To show on which machine it is done you can use the hostname and the
clock.
I believe this is different enough.

Myself I am working many times interactive too. All what I am evaluating
becomes a procedure or function with a lot of comments.
The Journal has no comments how did you remember later what's you like
to
have and what's not?

Normally I start in idlde or emacs with a procedure declaration and a
stop.
All what's I like to do are defined interactively. If it works I copy
this
to the procedure. The procedure runs again and stops somewhere else
where I like to add some lines and so on. After the routine is finished
I take a look on it if it is better a function or a procedure.


Reimar




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