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Re: IDL7 IDLWAVE help problem [message #60826 is a reply to message #60681]

Fri, 20 June 2008 14:20

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Jun 11, 12:00 pm, Chad Bender <chad.ben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded a RHEL5.2 system to IDL7 and am having trouble getting
> IDLWAVE to work with the help. I've followed the instructions in the
> IDL Tech Tip to install the 6.4 help packages, and copied the old
> idl_assistant script into my idl/bin directory. When I try to launch
> the help through emacs I get the error: 'Failed binding IDL_ASSISTANT
> socket'.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> If this procedure has resulted in a usable help system for others,
> then perhaps the problem is that I'm using Emacs 23.0, which I know is
> not currently supported by IDLWAVE. In that case, I'll just have to
> use the kludge of launching help from the command line.

Yep, IDLWAVE isn't working with the pre-release Emacs 23 yet, due to
some bugs on their part which have just been sorted out. Many are
using this method with Emacs 22 (the current release).

JD

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