| Re: Adobe 7.0 in IDL [message #45926] |
Wed, 19 October 2005 11:32  |
JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:08:53 -0700, Steve.Morris wrote:
> Cheers all!
>
> I use idl 6.0 on my suse linux. I have been updating my linux and got the
> adobe 7.0 that is not working anymore with the -supernasty!- idl online
> help (I know the topic has been already faced time ago)
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> So I was thinking this as a good excuse to migrate to some sort of more
> clever way of using the online help, idlwave or whatever would be good.
>
> I'm using emacs and I'm quite sure it already has idlwave features in it
> (ex: I call idl from it by typing ctrl-C-S) but I'm anable to see the
> online help provided with idlwave. What should I do? I have tried to
> Alt-X-idlwave- but then I don't have any help (only idlwave-hard-tab) as I
> would expect. What do I have to do in order to see it (if this is the
> right way of doing... ?!?)
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> I have also downloaded the html online-help (from idlwave.org) and add the
> following lines in .emacs
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> (setq idlwave-html-help-location
> "/home/myusername/IDLWAVE/idl_html_help/") (setq
> idlwave-help-browser-function 'firefox-browse-url)
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> but is seems not to work...
You probably have an old IDLWAVE bundled with emacs from long ago (the
last real Emacs release was around 2001, I believe). You'll need to
update your install (see idlwave.org) to use the new HTML help. Once
that is done, I think you need to say just
"/home/myusername/IDLWAVE". It automatically appends idl_html_help.
The default location is /usr/local/etc, so you could remove that
customization and just place the html help directory there as well.
In the quasi-not-distant future, look for: 1) an new Emacs release
which includes a much more modern IDLWAVE by default, and 2) a version
of IDLWAVE which understands and drives the new IDL 6.2 help system.
JD
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| Re: Adobe 7.0 in IDL [message #45963 is a reply to message #45926] |
Mon, 24 October 2005 04:46  |
Steve.Morris
Messages: 17
Registered: November 2002
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> You probably have an old IDLWAVE bundled with emacs from long ago (the
> last real Emacs release was around 2001, I believe). You'll need to
> update your install (see idlwave.org) to use the new HTML help. Once
> that is done, I think you need to say just
> "/home/myusername/IDLWAVE". It automatically appends idl_html_help.
> The default location is /usr/local/etc, so you could remove that
> customization and just place the html help directory there as well.
I have followed the instruction and now I get idlwave-help-.... from
my emacs. However I feel still a dummy, cos I haven't yet manage to
call help for a certain command.
In acrobat I was doing ex ?fltarr .... what should I do here in emacs?
I have tried to select idlwave-help-menu, but nothing happens :(
Anyhow, this is how it looks my .emacs file right now ...
(setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" load-path))
(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-browser-function 'firefox-browse-url)
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