| Re: IDLWAVE EMACS QUESTION [message #34869] |
Tue, 29 April 2003 13:39  |
btt
Messages: 345
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JD Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:04:08 -0700, Karthikayan Balakrishnan wrote:
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>> Hello All,
>> I tried the structure completion in IdlWAVE by adding
>>
>> (add-hook 'idlwave-load-hook
>> (lambda () (require 'idlw-complete-structtag)))
>>
>> in my .emacs file and then proceeded to add the
>> idlw-complete-structtag.el file to /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/
>> where the rest of the idl*.el files are. Yet when I load up Emacs I get
>> the following error:
>> File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file"
>> "idlw-complete-structtag")
>>
>> OS: Linux Redhat 8.0
>> Emacs Version: GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d
>> scroll bars) of 2002-08-28 on astest
>> IDL Version : 5.5
>>
>> Any suggestions? Thanks,
>> Karthik.
>
> It's likely that you're accidentally using the Emacs-bundled version
> of IDLWAVE, v4.7. You can see by "C-h v idlwave-mode-version". If
> so, this means the stuff in /usr/local/share/... isn't being used at
> all. Many linux systems, for some reason, come with Emacs configured
> *not* to look in /usr/local/share/... for lisp files. You need to
> configure your load-path in .emacs to include this directory:
>
> (setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" load-path))
>
> You can view your load-path with "C-h v load-path". Now
> complete-structtag should work, and you'll be using the newest IDLWAVE
> version too.
>
> JD
Hello,
I guess along the same topic but a slightly different question; how do I
get the IDL shell to pick up the modifications in my .tcshrc file that I
made to IDL's !PATH variable. I can't manage to get the shell to pick
up my modifications although it's there when I start IDL from the
command line or IDLDE.
IDL 5.6 on MacOSX
Thanks for any advise,
Ben
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| Re: IDLWAVE EMACS QUESTION [message #34871 is a reply to message #34869] |
Tue, 29 April 2003 12:07  |
JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999
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Senior Member |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:04:08 -0700, Karthikayan Balakrishnan wrote:
> Hello All,
> I tried the structure completion in IdlWAVE by adding
>
> (add-hook 'idlwave-load-hook
> (lambda () (require 'idlw-complete-structtag)))
>
> in my .emacs file and then proceeded to add the
> idlw-complete-structtag.el file to /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/
> where the rest of the idl*.el files are. Yet when I load up Emacs I get
> the following error:
> File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file"
> "idlw-complete-structtag")
>
> OS: Linux Redhat 8.0
> Emacs Version: GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d
> scroll bars) of 2002-08-28 on astest
> IDL Version : 5.5
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks,
> Karthik.
It's likely that you're accidentally using the Emacs-bundled version
of IDLWAVE, v4.7. You can see by "C-h v idlwave-mode-version". If
so, this means the stuff in /usr/local/share/... isn't being used at
all. Many linux systems, for some reason, come with Emacs configured
*not* to look in /usr/local/share/... for lisp files. You need to
configure your load-path in .emacs to include this directory:
(setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" load-path))
You can view your load-path with "C-h v load-path". Now
complete-structtag should work, and you'll be using the newest IDLWAVE
version too.
JD
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| Re: IDLWAVE EMACS QUESTION [message #34963 is a reply to message #34869] |
Tue, 29 April 2003 20:16 |
JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999
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Senior Member |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:39:30 -0700, Ben Tupper wrote:
> JD Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:04:08 -0700, Karthikayan Balakrishnan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>> I tried the structure completion in IdlWAVE by adding
>>
>>> (add-hook 'idlwave-load-hook
>>> (lambda () (require 'idlw-complete-structtag)))
>>>
>>> in my .emacs file and then proceeded to add the
>>> idlw-complete-structtag.el file to /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/
>>> where the rest of the idl*.el files are. Yet when I load up Emacs I get
>>> the following error:
>>> File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file"
>>> "idlw-complete-structtag")
>>>
>>> OS: Linux Redhat 8.0
>>> Emacs Version: GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d
>>> scroll bars) of 2002-08-28 on astest
>>> IDL Version : 5.5
>>>
>>> Any suggestions? Thanks,
>>> Karthik.
>>
>> It's likely that you're accidentally using the Emacs-bundled version
>> of IDLWAVE, v4.7. You can see by "C-h v idlwave-mode-version". If so,
>> this means the stuff in /usr/local/share/... isn't being used at all.
>> Many linux systems, for some reason, come with Emacs configured *not*
>> to look in /usr/local/share/... for lisp files. You need to configure
>> your load-path in .emacs to include this directory:
>>
>> (setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" load-path))
>>
>> You can view your load-path with "C-h v load-path". Now
>> complete-structtag should work, and you'll be using the newest IDLWAVE
>> version too.
>>
>> JD
>
> Hello,
>
> I guess along the same topic but a slightly different question; how do I
> get the IDL shell to pick up the modifications in my .tcshrc file that I
> made to IDL's !PATH variable. I can't manage to get the shell to pick
> up my modifications although it's there when I start IDL from the
> command line or IDLDE.
>
> IDL 5.6 on MacOSX
>
This just came up last week. You can either start Emacs/IDLWAVE from the
shell, or add your path setting stuff to ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.
The issue is that, when started as an Aqua Application, a program never
consults the shell for its environment. Hence the environment.plist
route.
JD
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| Re: IDLWAVE EMACS QUESTION [message #43294 is a reply to message #34963] |
Fri, 25 March 2005 11:49 |
Ch. Konig
Messages: 2
Registered: March 2005
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Junior Member |
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So I had the problem too that my Carbon Emacs (I'm on Mac OS X) would
not see my IDL_PATH definition in my .cshrc file. Starting from the
shell remedies the situation, while adding my path definition to
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist does not seem to change anything.
Might the "~/.MacOSX/environment.plist" route be a feature of the past
(pre-10.3 or so)?
Or is there something to be tweaked in my Mac?
How else could I make Emacs.app see my .cshrc or the IDL_PATH setting
at least? Is there a way to 'source' a file or define paths in .emacs?
No urgency to those questions, starting from the shell works fine. More
a remark to the IDLWAVE FAQ author.
Cheers,
Chris
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