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Re: IDL 5.6, MacOSX, IDLWAVE, Xemacs [message #33676 is a reply to message #33580]

Sun, 19 January 2003 11:29

dbowman
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Registered: January 2003

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Paul Woodford <cpwoodford@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:
>
> The built-in editor on the pre-5.6 Mac IDL is much, much better than the
> unix editor. I do most of my crunching on cheap Linux/Intel boxes, but
> I develop on my Mac. If I ever upgrade to 5.6, I expect that I will
> last all of 5 minutes with the editor before I feel compelled to start
> re-learning emacs finger gymnastics.
>
> Paul

I have to agree with Paul. The pre-5.6 Mac IDL editor was really
quite good. I'll probably follow Paul's example and continue to
develop on 5.5. I've simply no desire to relearn all of the emacs
"finger gymnastics". I know all of the computer science types swear
by emacs (object graphics, etc.), but IMHO the power of IDL was how
easy and accessable it *was* for the rest of us. It's clearly moving
away from that model.

David

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		IDL 5.6, MacOSX, IDLWAVE, Xemacs, and suicide By: dbowman on Wed, 15 January 2003 18:25
		Re: IDL 5.6, MacOSX, IDLWAVE, Xemacs By: dbowman on Sun, 19 January 2003 11:29
		Re: IDL 5.6, MacOSX, IDLWAVE, Xemacs By: Paul Woodford on Sat, 18 January 2003 20:23
		Re: IDL 5.6, MacOSX, IDLWAVE, Xemacs By: Carsten Dominik on Sat, 18 January 2003 12:08
		Re: IDL 5.6, MacOSX, IDLWAVE, Xemacs By: JD Smith on Fri, 17 January 2003 13:42
		Re: IDL 5.6, MacOSX, IDLWAVE, Xemacs, and suicide By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Fri, 17 January 2003 08:49
		Re: IDL 5.6, MacOSX, IDLWAVE, Xemacs By: Carsten Dominik on Fri, 17 January 2003 00:07

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