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Re: IDLWAVE "Expanding path..." [message #62681 is a reply to message #62636]

Thu, 25 September 2008 13:25

Jean H.
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Registered: July 2006

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BG wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've noticed that when I start up a new emacs IDLWAVE window (we still
> use IDL 6.2, so I haven't gotten around to the new Workbench IDE) that
> IDLWAVE kicks in an 'Expanding path...' phase that locks my emacs
> window while it goes off and tries to search through my paths for
> commands. As it turns out, this takes a while because I use the
> SolarSoft Ware database of astronomy analysis tools. Because this is a
> pretty large tree of subdirectories/packages/etc, this takes a while
> for IDLWAVE to scan, and even when I try to do an 'autocomplete' it
> tends to hang on this and then return an error (not important what
> this is, since I generally don't use this feature of IDLWAVE).
>
> Is there any way to turn off the 'Expanding path...' feature in the
> IDLWAVE startup? I've just typed this email in the time it took to
> run, which gives you an idea of how annoying this is when starting up
> a new IDLWAVE session.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>

I am not using IDLWAVE, so please excuse me if I am miles away...

but wouldn't removing the + sign, in your path, in front of your library
be enough?

Jean

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		Re: IDLWAVE "Expanding path..." By: BG on Mon, 29 September 2008 12:59
		Re: IDLWAVE "Expanding path..." By: Jean H. on Thu, 25 September 2008 13:25
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