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Re: New IDLDE [message #52866 is a reply to message #52857]

Thu, 08 March 2007 10:40

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:43:35 -0800, Matt wrote:

> On Mar 8, 10:20 am, Kenneth Bowman <k-bow...@tamu.edu> wrote:
>> Is Eclipse in the future for IDL?
>>
>> There's a story at the Reg titled "Developers tell Eclipse why it
>> sucks". ;-)
>
>
> Every time I hear IDL will be including eclipse in the next release I
> freak out about not being able to use emacs and idlwave anymore. Does
> anyone know if it will still be supported on linux?

IDLWAVE isn't going anywhere. If anything, ITTVIS has been far more
supportive of it over the last years. In fact, the fancy new help
interface, which allows you to pull up context help in the Assistant
from any IDL version starting with 6.1, is courtesy of the
idl_catalog.xml file now distributed with IDL, and built directly by
their documentation group. IDLWAVE parses this to learn system calling
syntax, location of help topics, etc. In the old days, we had to scan
PDF and HTML versions of their docs to discover this information,
using a giant and very difficult to maintain Perl script. Long time
IDLWAVE users might even remember the text-based help converted from
PDF, which we augmented by splicing in the "What's New" information
when v5.5 was released without updated documentation -- for a while,
IDLWAVE had the only up to date manuals for IDL!

There may be less motivation to use IDLWAVE for new users, given how
awful the current Motif IDLDE is, but I don't expect any other
changes.

Those of you looking to get started with IDLWAVE, I strong recommend
getting hold of a recent copy of Emacs 22 (still in pre-release, but
very stable and feature-packed). IDLWAVE is up to date and optimized
for this version. One could speculate Emacs 22 will be released in
the next months, but then again, it's been "months away" for several
years now...

JD

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		Re: New IDLDE By: R.Bauer on Fri, 09 March 2007 00:58
		Re: New IDLDE By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:57
		Re: New IDLDE By: Kenneth Bowman on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:10
		Re: New IDLDE By: Robbie on Thu, 08 March 2007 13:32
		Re: New IDLDE By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 March 2007 12:31
		Re: New IDLDE By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 08 March 2007 12:04
		Re: New IDLDE By: JD Smith on Thu, 08 March 2007 10:40
		Re: New IDLDE By: Ben Panter on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:53
		Re: New IDLDE By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:48
		Re: New IDLDE By: Matt[2] on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:43
		Re: New IDLDE By: Mirko on Tue, 13 March 2007 08:57
		Re: New IDLDE By: Kenneth Bowman on Fri, 09 March 2007 06:50
		Re: New IDLDE By: swingnut on Sun, 11 March 2007 05:17
		Re: New IDLDE By: JD Smith on Mon, 12 March 2007 17:15

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