| Re: IDL 7 on LINUX Question [message #57097 is a reply to message #57065] |
Mon, 03 December 2007 18:14  |
Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999
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On Dec 3, 6:08 pm, JD Smith <jdsm...@as.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:09:00 -0800, Vince Hradil wrote:
>> 1- how does IDL-Wave for Emacs do this. Doesn't it build a "library" file
>> that keeps track of things like keywords and completions, etc. Then that
>> file can be quickly searched. Of course, if you change your library, you
>> have to re-scan the files, but I find this not too inconvenient.
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> You pre-scan and it creates .idlwave_catalog files. You can rescan
> easily, but until you do, nothing changes. Any files loaded in a buffer,
> or routines compiled *do* update, so typically things stay in reasonable
> sync.
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> JD
Thanks for the reply, JD. The more I play with the new IDE, the more
I think I'm going to stick with emacs. Of course, I've been using
emacs for about 15-20 years now, so that could have a lot to do with
my bias. I really think that the IDLDE could have used a "catalog"
approach, but maybe it is just the way things are normally done in
Eclipse - i.e. rescan the active path upon loading the ide. Any JAVA
(or other) developers out there that use Eclipse? Of course, JAVA and
IDL are completely different beasts when it come to deployment (or are
they really...?)
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