| Re: OSX: syntax coloring? [message #33258 is a reply to message #33255] |
Fri, 13 December 2002 14:58   |
Bernard Knaepen
Messages: 8
Registered: October 2002
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In article <MPG.18640f6a17639410989a6a@news.frii.com>, David Fanning
<david@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Bernard Knaepen (bknaepen@ulb.ac.be) writes:
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>> Just by curiosity, what makes implementation difficult? IDL 5.5 on
>> MacOS Classic has color syntaxing and as far as I can tell from the
>> documention Windows also has it. Does it have to do with X11?
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> Apparently not, since EMACS can use color syntaxing.
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> You are new to the group, so you probably don't know
> I make up all my "facts" about RSI, but I can imagine
> that if I were there I wouldn't want to work on an
> impossibly thank-less task like writing a feature that
> the IDLWAVE mode is going to handle better anyway.
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> I think RSI is just being realistic. Why invest time
> and money in something no one is going to use. (Well,
> INSIGHT comes to mind, but that's another story.)
> Everyone I know (including every developer at RSI
> I ever knew) uses the IDLWAVE EMACS mode. I think
> that's the bottom line. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
Well, I thought it was going to be an unproductive friday afternoon
for me today but it isn't. I installed emacs from the fink distribution
(OSX) and then the standard IDLWAVE EMACS mode. Everything wen't
smooth (not a systematic experience for me when I enter the Unix world)
and voila, I have an editor that interacts with IDL and that looks very
nice. That feels good...
Cheers,
Bernard.
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