| Re: changing editors? [message #31434 is a reply to message #31383] |
Fri, 12 July 2002 01:46   |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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"M. Katz" wrote:
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>> So this is most probably a stupid question, but why not chuck windows
>> and use one of the approximately zillion Linux flavors out there? You
>> seem to be using your win-box mostly as a u*x box anyways, so why not
>> just go that one last step?
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> I've got an even better UNIX box on my desk. It's called a Mac, with
> OS X.
>
> Actually, I never realized that IDL for Windows doesn't have a
> command-line interface until I read this thread. How can you all
> tolerate the hassle this causes? (Now I understand why my PC
> colleagues use Matlab.) IDL's Classic Mac interface is a great joy to
> use, complete with command line (including command completion), a
> wonderful editor with syntax coloring (even on the command line), and
> loads of diagnostics. No need for bizarre kludges. I especially
> appreciate the way program errors or interruptions bring your cursor
> right to the offending line or stop point in an editor window.
>
> With Classic support going away, the new Mac interface (now overdue)
> will be an Xwindows (XFree86, actually) implementation--which also
> runs beautifully on the Mac. I hope they can maintain some of the
> great features from the Mac IDL environment, it's a great time saver
> over programming in a Linux/Unix emacs/vi/whatever world.
>
> With Linux, watch out of annoying, picky
> widget/window/color/graphics/font issues and inconsistencies. In my
> cross-platform life, I've spent days working out problems for Linux
> that don't exist on the Mac.
>
> My 2-cents,
> M. Katz
Dear M.Katz,
I am waiting since a few years for a new IDLDE editor for unix.
A few years ago they have added color coding to idlde and have removed
this by idl5.4.
With the kde it should not quite complicated if you have a look at kate
to set up an environment which it's nearly the same functionality.
Someone who knows emacs and the many plug-ins available and the idl mode
has much more functionality as the idlde can give.
With emacs you can directly exchange source with a cvs archive and show
the differnces.
This is one more feature the next idlde should have.
I don't know why they don't pay some money to some kde programmers
to develop a really new idlde. Many things could be taken from
kdevstudio.
Reimar
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-I)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
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