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Re: IDL source editor alternatives? [message #44398]

Tue, 14 June 2005 15:06

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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Robert Moss wrote:
> Benjamin Hornberger wrote:
>
>> You also have to live with the annoyances that IDLDE opens every file
>> you compile in the editor, that the cursor sometimes jumps from the
>> command line to the editor window and that IDLDE pops up windows
>> saying that your source code has been changed from outside IDLDE.
>
>
> That's odd, because I have been using IDLDE for ages on Windows and I do
> not recall ever seeing IDLDE open every file I compile in the editor.

Neither do I, but that's probably because I have never compiled a file
from the command line (well, hardly ever). I just tried it and it *does*
do as Benjamin said.

> I
> have had IDLDE pop and tell me that my source code has been changed from
> outside IDLDE, but that was always because I had changed it :)

Yes. This is a feature, not a bug.

What I do on Windows is always open files for editing in IDLDE. Then if
I have any volume of work to do, press the magic, user-defined key
combination to open the file in Xemacs. I edit the file there and when I
want to compile, close it and return to IDLDE. This kindly tells me the
file has changed. I compile and debug if necessary there.

The Unix people are going to cringe, but this works very well for me. I
never get confused about which editor has the latest changes (well,
hardly ever).

--
Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		Re: IDL source editor alternatives? By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 14 June 2005 15:06
		Re: IDL source editor alternatives? By: Robert Moss on Tue, 14 June 2005 11:47
		Re: IDL source editor alternatives? By: Rick Towler on Tue, 14 June 2005 08:52
		Re: IDL source editor alternatives? By: Miguel Angel Cordoba on Tue, 14 June 2005 08:44
		Re: IDL source editor alternatives? By: Antonio Santiago on Tue, 14 June 2005 07:39
		Re: IDL source editor alternatives? By: Craig[1] on Tue, 14 June 2005 07:24
		Re: IDL source editor alternatives? By: Benjamin Hornberger on Tue, 14 June 2005 06:08
		Re: IDL source editor alternatives? By: Antonio Santiago on Tue, 14 June 2005 04:59
		Re: IDL source editor alternatives? By: Craig[1] on Wed, 15 June 2005 04:48

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