Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
Author: Carsten Dominik, Chris Chase, JD Smith
IDL editing mode for GNU Emacs
IDLWAVE enables feature-rich development and interaction with IDL,
the Interactive Data Language. It provides a compelling,
full-featured alternative to the IDLDE development environment
bundled with IDL.
In the remotely distant past, based on pascal.el, though bears
little resemblance to it now.
Incorporates many ideas, such as abbrevs, action routines, and
continuation line indenting, from wave.el.
wave.el original written by Lubos Pochman, Precision Visuals, Boulder.
See the mode description ("C-h m" in idlwave-mode or "C-h f idlwave-mode")
for features, key bindings, and info.
Also, Info format documentation is available with `M-x idlwave-info'
New versions of IDLWAVE, documentation, and more information
available from:
https://github.com/jdtsmith/idlwave
INSTALLATION
============
Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file of the distribution.
In short, put this file on your load path and add the following
lines to your init file:
(autoload 'idlwave-mode "idlwave" "IDLWAVE Mode" t)
(autoload 'idlwave-shell "idlw-shell" "IDLWAVE Shell" t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.pro\\'" . idlwave-mode) auto-mode-alist))
SOURCE
======
The newest version of this file is available from the maintainer's
Webpage:
https://github.com/jdtsmith/idlwave
DOCUMENTATION
=============
IDLWAVE is documented online in info format. A printable version
of the documentation is available from the maintainers webpage (see
SOURCE).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
===============
Thanks to the following people for their contributions and comments:
Ulrik Dickow
Eric E. Dors
Stein Vidar H. Haugan
David Huenemoerder
Kevin Ivory
Dick Jackson
Xuyong Liu
Simon Marshall
Laurent Mugnier
Lubos Pochman
Bob Portmann
Patrick M. Ryan
Marty Ryba
Paul Sorenson
Phil Sterne
Phil Williams
CUSTOMIZATION:
=============
IDLWAVE has extensive customize support; to learn about the
variables which control the mode's behavior, use `M-x
idlwave-customize'.
You can set your own preferred values with Customize, or with Lisp
code in .emacs. For an example of what to put into .emacs, check
the TexInfo documentation or see a complete .emacs available at the
website.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
==============
IDLWAVE support for the IDL-derived PV-WAVE CL language of Visual
Numerics, Inc. is growing less and less complete as the two
languages grow increasingly apart. The mode probably shouldn't
even have "WAVE" in its title, but it's catchy, and was required
to avoid conflict with the CORBA idl.el mode. Caveat WAVEor.
Moving the point backwards in conjunction with abbrev expansion
does not work as I would like it, but this is a problem with
Emacs abbrev expansion done by the self-insert-command. It ends
up inserting the character that expanded the abbrev after moving
point backward, e.g., "\cl" expanded with a space becomes
"LONG( )" with point before the close paren. This is solved by
using a temporary function in `post-command-hook' - not pretty,
but it works.
Tabs and spaces are treated equally as whitespace when filling a
comment paragraph. To accomplish this, tabs are permanently
replaced by spaces in the text surrounding the paragraph, which
may be an undesirable side-effect. Replacing tabs with spaces is
limited to comments only and occurs only when a comment
paragraph is filled via `idlwave-fill-paragraph'.
Multi-statement lines (using "&") on block begin and end lines can
ruin the formatting. For example, multiple end statements on a
line: endif & endif. Using "&" outside of block begin/end lines
should be okay.
Determining the expression at point for printing and other
examination commands is somewhat rough: currently only fairly
simple entities are found. You can always drag-select or examine
a pre-selected region.
When forcing completion of method keywords, the initial
query for a method has multiple entries for some methods. Would
be too difficult to fix this hardly used case.