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Re: idl 6.3 bus error during tv [message #58510 is a reply to message #57840] Wed, 30 January 2008 06:10 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Paul Van Delst[1] is currently offline  Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> don.woodraska@gmail.com writes:
>
>> No matter what "features" version 7 has, I am
>> prepared to gladly embrace them (or at least happily work around
>> them).
>
> "When you have no choice, you must embrace the inevitable."
>
> I think I read that in A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines,
> a wonderful book, although I can't find the quote at the moment.
> Sounds like something Alan Turing would say. :-)

Or Richard Dawkins maybe? :o)

> With the exception of losing graphics windows,

?? Forgive me if I've lost the story in all the various idl7 threads, but what does that mean?

> I would
> have to say that by and large I am pretty happy with IDL 7.
> Of course, I've stripped the damn thing down and configured
> the hell out of it so that it looks and acts like IDL 6.4,
> but, still...

I got idl7 installed yesterday. Being a command line only type of guy, it seems no
different to me -- although I haven't had time to push it. (To say nothing of being
mortally a-feared to even *start* that workbench thingy, let alone learn to use it. :o)

> The only thing I am really missing is that wonderful ability
> to edit by columns. That was neat. :-)

nedit (and others) will do it. As an aside, is it possible to implement one's editor of
choice in eclipse and, by extension, the IDL workbench?

cheers,

paulv
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