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Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? [message #53051]

Fri, 16 March 2007 14:45

swingnut
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On Mar 15, 10:32 pm, Christopher Thom <c...@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
wrote:
> Quoth mgal...@gmail.com:
>
>> On Mar 15, 10:29 am, swing...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Actually, I've already tweaked my terminal quite a bit. But that's
>>> terminal. IDL spawns a different X11 terminal, then spawns its own
>>> terminal window. But perhaps it inherits the X11 terminals properties,
>>> which should be tweakable ... I'll have to investigate!
>
>> No need to use the xterm that X11 will launch by default (you can stop
>> it from launching by editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc). Just use
>> Terminal (or even better, iTerm).
>
> I would second the iTerm recommendation. Or better yet...IDLWAVE under
> emacs. Not only do you get to tweak your colours, but nice syntax
> highlighting (etc etc) too.
>
> cheers
> chris

That would indeed be very tempting. Except, well, ewwww -- Emacs.

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		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: swingnut on Fri, 16 March 2007 14:45
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: Christopher Thom on Thu, 15 March 2007 20:32
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 15 March 2007 11:58
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: mmeron on Thu, 15 March 2007 11:48
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 15 March 2007 11:05
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: swingnut on Thu, 15 March 2007 09:29
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: Maarten[1] on Thu, 15 March 2007 09:07
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: swingnut on Thu, 15 March 2007 08:33

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