Re: IDLWAVE 4.8

[Martin Schultz <martin.schultz(at)dkrz.de>]

Hi Carsten,

   thanks again for keeping up the maintenance of this great tool! May
I use the opportunity to ask one question (feature already there else
request): Is there a chance to start (X)emacs directly with an IDL
shell but no editing window. When I am only "using" IDL (as opposed to
develop applications), I would like to have something simple like the
"idl" command to get to a command line interface directly. Are there
any XEmacs options to do that? I realize this might be difficult for
XEmacs first has to find out that I want to use the idlwave mode...

Regards,

Martin



Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> Hello, Emacs users,
> 
> I have uploaded IDLWAVE 4.8.  As always you can find it here:
> 
> http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~dominik/Tools/idlwave
> 
> Changes in version 4.8
> ---------------------
> 
> - The shell preserves the command history between sessions.  See
>    new variables `idlwave-shell-command-history-file' and
>   `idlwave-shell-save-command-history'.
>   Note that JD posted some ugly code a few month ago which had the
>   same effect.  If you copied that code into .emacs, remove it again.
>   Saving the command history is now the default, no extra actions
>   required.
> 
> - New variable `idlwave-indent-to-open-paren' which can be used to
>   turn off deep indentation of continuation lines.  Example:
>   x = function_a(function_b(function_c( a, b, $
>                                         d, c)))
> 
> - The library catalog can be updated with a background job so that
>   you can continue to work while it runs.
> 
> - A double prefix argument to `idlwave-shell-print' evaluates
>   and prints the current region as an expression.
> 
> - When the IDL process under the shell exits, it runs
>   `idlwave-shell-sentinel-hook'.
> 
> - Fixed bug with deleting last window on IDL exit.
> 
> - Fixed bug (exponential regexp) with parsing Liam Gumley's routine
>   headers.
> 
> 
> - Carsten

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