| Re: IDLWAVE 4.6 [message #22794 is a reply to message #22738] |
Sun, 10 December 2000 04:26   |
dominik
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>>>> > "PAR" == Pavel A Romashkin <pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov> writes:
PAR> Huray! I got a breakthrough in my use of Emacs. This time, thoroughly
PAR> intrigued by all happy discussions of how great
PAR> idlwave-tell-it-to-write-code is, in only 2.5 hrs I got Emacs to run and
PAR> compile the .el files. As I, holding my breath, typed "M-x
PAR> idlwave-shell", a beep and informative "multiprocessing is not
PAR> supported" message hit me. Bummer. I am afraid I am not switching to
PAR> LinuxPPC just to run Emacs after David's recent exercise in that area :-(
I guess this has never been stated clearly enough:
IDLWAVE is a system that consists of two parts. A mode for *editing*
IDL source code, and a mode for *running* IDL as an Emacs subprocess.
Editing source files requires only a working version of Emacs.
However, to run IDL as a subprocess, you need additional things.
1. A multiprocessing operating system, like UNIX, Windows, MacOS
2. Emacs support for subprocesses. I know this is available on UNIX
and Windows, but I don't know where else.
3. A *command line* version of IDL. As far as I know this exists only
for UNIX. There have been claims that it should be relatively easy
to make a small program which would *function* like a command-line
IDL on Windows, but I have not seen such a program yet.
In short: You can edit files with IDLWAVE on any system running Emacs
20.x or XEmacs 20.x, 21.x. But to use the shell, you need a UNIX
system.
- Carsten
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