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Re: IDL Workbench Nits [message #57983 is a reply to message #57982]

Thu, 10 January 2008 09:09

Doug Edmundson
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Registered: November 2005

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Ryan. wrote:
>> Like you, I have seen this only happen occasionally, and I
>> haven't been able to pinpoint the exact circumstances, but
>> it seems to me that when I am using my arrow keys to recall
>> commands, that the command is executed immediately upon
>> recall. What I want, of course, is to recall a command
>> to the command line so I can make a change to it, not to
>> execute it right away. I don't want it to execute until I
>> have hit the Carriage Return. When the command sets of a long program,
>> this is MOST annoying.
>
> I haven't experienced that.....yet. The command line seems to work as
> it should for me. But I can only imagine how annoying it can be.
>
> One thing I just noticed is that if you have a string with this slash
> "\" in it, the variables prints it as having two.
>
> Here is a sample:
> IDL> sasfname = 'Z:\test\sas\SAS_WEEK49.SAS'
> IDL> print, sasfname
> Z:\test\sas\SAS_WEEK49.SAS
>
> but in the Variables Window it says:
> Z:\\test\\sas\\SAS_WEEK49.SAS
>
> But it doesn't work the same way if you use the other slash:
> IDL> sasfname_otherslash = 'Z:/test/sas/SAS_WEEK49.SAS'
> IDL> print, sasfname_otherslash
> Z:/test/sas/SAS_WEEK49.SAS
>
> and in the Variables window it says:
> Z:/test/sas/SAS_WEEK49.SAS
>
>
> This might be how Eclipse works but can be misleading if I use the
> Variables window often.
>
> Ryan.

Hi Ryan,

Just a quick update... the bug with backslashes in the variables view
has been logged. Thanks for the report.

Cheers,
Doug

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		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Bob[3] on Thu, 10 January 2008 12:57
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Abraham campbell on Thu, 10 January 2008 12:43
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Doug Edmundson on Thu, 10 January 2008 09:25
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Doug Edmundson on Thu, 10 January 2008 09:09
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 January 2008 08:19
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 January 2008 08:11
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Ryan. on Thu, 10 January 2008 07:43
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 January 2008 06:27
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Ryan. on Thu, 10 January 2008 06:19
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 10 January 2008 13:45

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