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Re: IDLWave upgrading? [message #47288 is a reply to message #47201]

Wed, 01 February 2006 05:46

Bruce Bowler
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Registered: September 1998

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:09:27 -0700, JD Smith put fingers to keyboard and
said:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:35:30 -0500, Bruce Bowler wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:08:51 -0700, JD Smith put fingers to keyboard and
>> said:
>>
>>
>>>> [bcb@modis bin]$ which idlhelp
>>>> /usr/local/bin/idlhelp
>>>>
>>>> So the shell knows how to find it. Is there something I can type
>>>> within emacs that might reveal clues as to why it's not being launched?
>>>
>>>
>>> Just attempt to run the command, and look in the *Messages* buffer for
>>> any error message.
>>>
>>> JD
>>
>> No errors at all... Is there a target date for IDLWave 6?
>
> Waiting on a few odds and ends, but it should be within a few weeks.
> Emacs may not have the same path as your shell (as is common in OSX, for
> example). Try starting emacs from the shell directly, and see if that
> helps. You can M-: (getenv "PATH") to see what emacs things the execute
> path is.
>
> JD

Doing that shows that /usr/local/bin is on the path that emacs sees.
Probably not a surprise, but if I do M-! idlhelp, it works.

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		IDLWave upgrading? By: Bruce Bowler on Tue, 24 January 2006 09:00
		Re: IDLWave upgrading? By: JD Smith on Tue, 31 January 2006 16:09
		Re: IDLWave upgrading? By: Bruce Bowler on Wed, 01 February 2006 05:46
		Re: IDLWave upgrading? By: Bruce Bowler on Tue, 31 January 2006 07:35
		Re: IDLWave upgrading? By: JD Smith on Mon, 30 January 2006 13:08
		Re: IDLWave upgrading? By: JD Smith on Wed, 01 February 2006 15:41

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