| New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X [message #33115] |
Mon, 02 December 2002 22:53 |
psisquared01
Messages: 7
Registered: December 2002
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Hello! I've been using the IDL editor for a few years on PCs/Macs and
am now trying to get setup on Mac OS X with Emacs, IDLWAVE and IDL 5.6
(I tried the IDLDE but it doesn't seem very good compared to what I'm
used to on the PC/Classic Mac--where's the syntax highlighting?). I'm
pretty new to Unix and very new to Emacs so although I've been able to
learn alot along the way solving the problems I've come across this
one has me stumped :( I'm going through the IDLWAVE in a Nutshell
document and in the beginning there is reference to using Meta-Tab
after a PLOT call in order to see possible keywords. When I hit
Meta-Tab, I get the error 'No tags table loaded try M-x
visit-tags-table'.
I went so far as to create a tags table with IDLTAGS --etags, but I
don't think that was the right direction...now Meta-Tab completes plot
and produces plot_wfield. IDLWAVE is running--IDLWAVE and DEBUG menus
show up, and I can start the IDL shell in EMacs with C-c C-s. I just
saw that I can get completion to work by selecting Completion from the
IDLWAVE menu that list shortcut (<M-tab>) In fact, my meta key
definitely works too, cause I used it in the Emacs tutorial and I used
it in IDLWAVE mode to start the IDLDE(Meta-s). It just refuses to work
for M-tab for IDLWAVE..argh.
In case it helps, here's some more info: I'm running OS X 10.2.2, the
OS X emacs 21.3.50, and installed IDLWAVE 4.1.6 from idlwave.org into
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp which is in my Emacs load-path variable. I
removed the 4.1.5 version that came with my Emacs install. I read a
previous thread that was similar to my problem that turned out to be a
conflict with Linux Alt-tab, but that doesn't seem to be my problem,
but maybe it is similar since my original Meta-key was the
Apple(command) key, which is used for Apple-tab application switching
in OS X. I changed the meta key from Apple to Option(alt) by setting
the command below in my .emacs file.
And, here's my .emacs file:
(if (equal default-directory "/") (setq default-directory "~/"))
(setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil)
(autoload 'idlwave-mode "idlwave" "IDLWAVE Mode" t)
(autoload 'idlwave-shell "idlw-shell" "IDLWAVE Shell" t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.pro\\'" . idlwave-mode)
auto-mode-alist))
(setq idlwave-help-directory "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp")
(add-hook 'idlwave-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
From what I've read so far about IDLWAVE it seems like a great
environment so I'd really like to get this working fully. Not sure
what else isn't going to work because of this problem so I prefer to
fix problems before moving on. Sorry this is kind of long, but it just
scratches the surface of what I've tried so far! Any fixes, tips,
suggestions? TIA.
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