| Re: OSX: syntax coloring? [message #33260 is a reply to message #33259] |
Fri, 13 December 2002 14:38   |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Bernard Knaepen (bknaepen@ulb.ac.be) writes:
> Just by curiosity, what makes implementation difficult? IDL 5.5 on
> MacOS Classic has color syntaxing and as far as I can tell from the
> documention Windows also has it. Does it have to do with X11?
Apparently not, since EMACS can use color syntaxing.
You are new to the group, so you probably don't know
I make up all my "facts" about RSI, but I can imagine
that if I were there I wouldn't want to work on an
impossibly thank-less task like writing a feature that
the IDLWAVE mode is going to handle better anyway.
I think RSI is just being realistic. Why invest time
and money in something no one is going to use. (Well,
INSIGHT comes to mind, but that's another story.)
Everyone I know (including every developer at RSI
I ever knew) uses the IDLWAVE EMACS mode. I think
that's the bottom line. :-)
Cheers,
David
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