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Re: New IDLDE [message #53024 is a reply to message #52866]

Tue, 13 March 2007 08:57

Mirko
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On Mar 8, 2:40 pm, JD Smith <jdsm...@as.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:43:35 -0800, Matt wrote:
>> On Mar 8, 10:20 am, Kenneth Bowman <k-bow...@tamu.edu> wrote:
>>> Is Eclipse in the future for IDL?
>
>>> There's a story at the Reg titled "Developers tell Eclipse why it
>>> sucks". ;-)
>
>> Every time I hear IDL will be including eclipse in the next release I
>> freak out about not being able to use emacs and idlwave anymore. Does
>> anyone know if it will still be supported on linux?
>
> IDLWAVE isn't going anywhere. If anything, ITTVIS has been far more
> supportive of it over the last years. In fact, the fancy new help
> interface, which allows you to pull up context help in the Assistant
> from any IDL version starting with 6.1, is courtesy of the
> idl_catalog.xml file now distributed with IDL, and built directly by
> their documentation group. IDLWAVE parses this to learn system calling
> syntax, location of help topics, etc. In the old days, we had to scan
> PDF and HTML versions of their docs to discover this information,
> using a giant and very difficult to maintain Perl script. Long time
> IDLWAVE users might even remember the text-based help converted from
> PDF, which we augmented by splicing in the "What's New" information
> when v5.5 was released without updated documentation -- for a while,
> IDLWAVE had the only up to date manuals for IDL!
>
> There may be less motivation to use IDLWAVE for new users, given how
> awful the current Motif IDLDE is, but I don't expect any other
> changes.
>
> Those of you looking to get started with IDLWAVE, I strong recommend
> getting hold of a recent copy of Emacs 22 (still in pre-release, but
> very stable and feature-packed). IDLWAVE is up to date and optimized
> for this version. One could speculate Emacs 22 will be released in
> the next months, but then again, it's been "months away" for several
> years now...
>
> JD

Windows users can find pre-compiled binaries of emacs-22 on the AucTeX
site ( http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download-for-windows.html)

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		Re: New IDLDE By: R.Bauer on Fri, 09 March 2007 00:58
		Re: New IDLDE By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:57
		Re: New IDLDE By: Kenneth Bowman on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:10
		Re: New IDLDE By: Robbie on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:32
		Re: New IDLDE By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 March 2007 12:31
		Re: New IDLDE By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 08 March 2007 12:04
		Re: New IDLDE By: JD Smith on Thu, 08 March 2007 10:40
		Re: New IDLDE By: Ben Panter on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:53
		Re: New IDLDE By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:48
		Re: New IDLDE By: Matt[2] on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:43
		Re: New IDLDE By: Mirko on Tue, 13 March 2007 08:57
		Re: New IDLDE By: Kenneth Bowman on Fri, 09 March 2007 06:50
		Re: New IDLDE By: swingnut on Sun, 11 March 2007 05:17
		Re: New IDLDE By: JD Smith on Mon, 12 March 2007 17:15

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