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Re: Continuing Linux Education [message #47301 is a reply to message #47299]

Sat, 04 February 2006 11:57

peter.albert@gmx.de is currently offline

peter.albert@gmx.de
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Registered: July 2005

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Hi David,

I had the same problem with IDL not being found in Emacs/IDLWAVE,
although calling idl from the shell worked just fine. This was because
idl was set as an alias somewhere, pointing to the correct executable,
while its path was not in the !PATH environment variable. IDLWAVE
doesn't know about the alias and hence can't execute IDL.

You can check this with just calling

$ alias | grep -i idl

If IDL pops up, it is set as an alias. You can either look for where
this is done and comment the appropriate line out, or you add a line
like

unalias idl

in your bashrc. Then you add the IDL path to $PATH as

setenv PATH $PATH:/usr/local/rsi/idl/idl_6.2/bin

or similar.

If I remember correctly, an alternative way is to explicitely tell
IDLWAVE where IDL is located. I can't remember where in the vast desert
of Emacs configuration I once stumbled over the appropriate entry, but
I know it's there.

Cheers,

Peter

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