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Re: IDL environment [message #42105]

Thu, 30 December 2004 12:48

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:39:39 -0800, judy wrote:

> I am a newbe to IDL and looking for information for setting up the
> environment. I did create the ~/idl_startup.pro file to set the
> graphics to true_color=24, also added a directory to the path. I would
> also like to change the idl prompt from something like,
>
> /home/judy/idl>
>
> and have the prompt update to always display the current working
> directory. I have experimented with the !prompt variable, could
> probably create a alias cd.pro program to update the variable every
> time the directory changes, just thought I would ask this group first.

This type of changing prompt won't work well with IDLWAVE, unless you
carefully set the prompt matching expression to something which
matches all prompt, but does not match other random output.

JD

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		Re: IDL environment By: JD Smith on Thu, 30 December 2004 12:48
		Re: IDL environment By: judy on Wed, 29 December 2004 02:35
		Re: IDL environment By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 28 December 2004 08:16
		Re: IDL environment By: David Fanning on Tue, 28 December 2004 08:02
		Re: IDL environment By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 28 December 2004 07:52
		Re: IDL environment By: R.Bauer on Tue, 28 December 2004 03:03
		Re: IDL environment By: David Fanning on Mon, 27 December 2004 21:23
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