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Continuing Linux Education [message #47306]

Fri, 03 February 2006 16:12

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

In the interest of sharing my (interesting) experience re-learning
the UNIX operating system, I have a couple of questions.

I have managed to get Fedora Core 4 installed and dual-booting
on my laptop. And I just installed IDL in the usual place, with
an unremarkable setup, and I modified my .bashrc file,
and now I can start IDL with a simple "idl" command. And I
can start emacs and load a "pro" file, and it shows up in
IDLMODE. Hurray!!

So I think I am golden, and start to work through the
IDLWAVE tutorial, and pretty much *nothing* works as
outlined there. I can't select the entire buffer with C-x h,
my END doesn't change to ENDFOR when I position my cursor
at the end of END and hit the space key, and--most particularly--
C-c C-s tells me IDL can't be found. :-(

On the bright side, I can do a m-RET and get a real line break!

I feel like I am making some progress, but I am feeling
more simpatico with my astronomer friends all the time.
Any good ideas are welcome, and soon. I've already picked
this computer up three times this afternoon with the
intention of pitching it out the window, before good sense
intervened. :-(

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Continuing Linux Education By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 February 2006 16:12
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: JD Smith on Tue, 07 February 2006 08:33
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 07 February 2006 12:28
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: JD Smith on Tue, 07 February 2006 08:13
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: savoie on Wed, 08 February 2006 07:07
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 06 February 2006 14:52
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: MarioIncandenza on Mon, 06 February 2006 12:08
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 February 2006 09:37
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: David Kastrup on Tue, 07 February 2006 17:33
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: JD Smith on Fri, 10 February 2006 09:53
		Re: Continuing Linux Education By: David Kastrup on Fri, 10 February 2006 15:21

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