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idl and MS word [message #58326]

Mon, 28 January 2008 06:58

elwood
Messages: 23
Registered: February 2007

Junior Member

I'm running the new workbench under windows xp and teaching a
numerical physics class using it.
Many interesting features have popped up (but thats a story for a
different post)

I know that ms word cannot be used to created idl .pros cuz it inserts
all sorts of wierd characters.

But to convince my students of this fact, I was wondering if there was
a doc SOMEWHERE
in the idl help pages that states which editors are suitable for
creating idl programs
OUTSIDE the workbench.

Thanks Mucho,

More news later on the "workbench features"-urgh!

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Re: idl and MS word [message #58383 is a reply to message #58326]

Tue, 29 January 2008 00:14

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

Senior Member

izimine@gmail.com schrieb:
> On Jan 28, 11:58 pm, elwood <epolo...@uwsp.edu> wrote:
>> I'm running the new workbench under windows xp and teaching a
>> numerical physics class using it.
>> Many interesting features have popped up (but thats a story for a
>> different post)
>>
>> I know that ms word cannot be used to created idl .pros cuz it inserts
>> all sorts of wierd characters.
>>
>> But to convince my students of this fact, I was wondering if there was
>> a doc SOMEWHERE
>
> You would do a big favour to your students and make a world a better
> place if you spend half an hour explaining the difference between word
> processing and text editing in general and why they should never try
> writing any program in any programming language using ms word...
>
> kochirakoso domo thanks

seems it wasn't a joke, after I did Laughing Out Loud I got he may want
to know some documents what he all can do with idleclipse.

I do miss something similiar to
http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=PyDevEclipseList too.

cheers
Reimar

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Re: idl and MS word [message #58384 is a reply to message #58326]

Tue, 29 January 2008 00:20

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

Senior Member

jeffnettles4870@gmail.com schrieb:
> Just to throw my 2 cents in, i use VIM since i learned VI on UNIX.
> There's a nice little windows front end now called Cream (no idea
> where the name came from). VI is famous for not being all that user-
> friendly to the unitiated, but the Cream front end makes it behave
> much more like you'd expect. It does support syntax highlighting for
> IDL. You can find it at http://www.vim.org.
>
> Jeff

I like vim too :)

and for those of you didn't tried it yet you should watch this nice
video about efficient vim usage
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=2538831956647446078&a mp;q=engedu

cheers
Reimar

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Re: idl and MS word [message #58386 is a reply to message #58326]

Mon, 28 January 2008 20:36

izimine
Messages: 11
Registered: November 1997

Junior Member

On Jan 28, 11:58 pm, elwood <epolo...@uwsp.edu> wrote:
> I'm running the new workbench under windows xp and teaching a
> numerical physics class using it.
> Many interesting features have popped up (but thats a story for a
> different post)
>
> I know that ms word cannot be used to created idl .pros cuz it inserts
> all sorts of wierd characters.
>
> But to convince my students of this fact, I was wondering if there was
> a doc SOMEWHERE

You would do a big favour to your students and make a world a better
place if you spend half an hour explaining the difference between word
processing and text editing in general and why they should never try
writing any program in any programming language using ms word...

kochirakoso domo thanks

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Re: idl and MS word [message #58413 is a reply to message #58326]

Mon, 28 January 2008 08:21

jeffnettles4870
Messages: 111
Registered: October 2006

Senior Member

Just to throw my 2 cents in, i use VIM since i learned VI on UNIX.
There's a nice little windows front end now called Cream (no idea
where the name came from). VI is famous for not being all that user-
friendly to the unitiated, but the Cream front end makes it behave
much more like you'd expect. It does support syntax highlighting for
IDL. You can find it at http://www.vim.org.

Jeff

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