| Re: IDLWAVE "Expanding path..." [message #62636] |
Mon, 29 September 2008 12:59  |
BG
Messages: 6
Registered: May 2008
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On Sep 25, 1:25 pm, Jean H <jghas...@DELTHIS.ucalgary.ANDTHIS.ca>
wrote:
> 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?
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> Jean
Hi Jean,
Well, yes, it would. But then I also couldn't really _use_ any of the
routines in the library, which would defeat the purpose, no?
What I want is some way to turn off the feature of IDLWAVE where it
tries to do an autocomplete by first scanning all of the programs in
your path.
Cheers,
Brian
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