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@titlepage
@author by Carsten Dominik
@page
-Copyright @copyright{} 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-@sp 2
This is edition @value{EDITION} of the @cite{IDLWAVE User Manual} for
IDLWAVE version @value{VERSION}, @value{DATE}.
-
@sp 2
-
+Copyright @copyright{} 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@sp 2
@cindex Copyright, of IDLWAVE
-Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim
-copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and
-this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
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-Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified
-versions of this manual under the conditions for
-verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting
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-notice identical to this one.
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-Permission is granted to copy and distribute
-translations of this manual into another language,
-under the above conditions for modified versions,
-except that this permission notice may be stated in a
-translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.
+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
+Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU
+Manual'', and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the
+license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
+License'' in the Emacs manual.
+
+(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have freedom to copy and modify
+this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free
+Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.''
+
+This document is part of a collection distributed under the GNU Free
+Documentation License. If you want to distribute this document
+separately from the collection, you can do so by adding a copy of the
+license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license.
@end titlepage
@contents
@page
-@cindex Help application, keybindings
-@cindex Keybindings, in help application
+@cindex Help application, key bindings
+@cindex Key bindings, in help application
The help window is normally displayed in a separate frame. The
following commands can be used to navigate inside the help system.
@end defopt
@defopt idlwave-max-popup-menu-items (@code{20})
-Maximum number of items per pane in popup menus.
+Maximum number of items per pane in pop-up menus.
@end defopt
@defopt idlwave-extra-help-function
@cindex Templates
IDLWAVE can insert IDL code templates into the buffer. For a few
-templates, this is done with direct keybindings:
+templates, this is done with direct key bindings:
@multitable @columnfractions .15 .85
@item @kbd{C-c C-c}
@cindex Comint, Emacs package
@cindex Windows
@cindex MacOS
-@cindex Unix
The IDLWAVE shell is an Emacs major mode which allows to run the IDL
program as an inferior process of Emacs. It can be used to work with
packages which handles the communication with the IDL program.
Unfortunately IDL for Windows and MacOS does not allow the interaction
with Emacs@footnote{Please inform the maintainer if you come up with a way
-to make the IDLWAVE shell work on these systems.} - so the IDLWAVE shell
-only works under Unix.
+to make the IDLWAVE shell work on these systems.}, so the IDLWAVE shell
+only works under GNU and Unix.
@menu
* Starting the Shell:: How to launch IDL as a subprocess
@kindex C-c C-d
Programs can be compiled, run, and debugged directly from the source
-buffer in Emacs. The IDLWAVE shell installs keybindings both in the
+buffer in Emacs. The IDLWAVE shell installs key bindings both in the
shell buffer and in all IDL code buffers of the current Emacs session.
On Emacs versions which support this, it also installs a debugging
toolbar. The display of the toolbar can be toggled with @kbd{C-c C-d
C-t} (@code{idlwave-shell-toggle-toolbar}).
-The debugging keybindings are by default on the prefix key @kbd{C-c
+The debugging key bindings are by default on the prefix key @kbd{C-c
C-d}, so for example setting a breakpoint is done with @kbd{C-c C-d
C-b}, compiling a source file with @kbd{C-c C-d C-c}. If you find this
too much work you can choose a combination of modifier keys which is not
@cindex IDL library routine info
@cindex Windows
@cindex MacOS
-@cindex Unix
@cindex IDL variable @code{!DIR}
@cindex @code{!DIR}, IDL variable
Windows and MacOS, you also need to specify the search path for IDL
library files in the variable @code{idlwave-library-path}, and the
location of the IDL directory (the value of the @code{!DIR} system
-variable) in the variable @code{idlwave-system-directory}. Under UNIX,
+variable) in the variable @code{idlwave-system-directory}. Under Unix and GNU,
these values will be automatically inferred from an IDLWAVE
shell.
@end defopt
@defopt idlwave-library-path
-IDL library path for Windows and MacOS. Not needed under Unix.
+IDL library path for Windows and MacOS. Not needed under GNU and Unix.
@end defopt
@defopt idlwave-system-directory
-The IDL system directory for Windows and MacOS. Not needed under UNIX.
+The IDL system directory for Windows and MacOS. Not needed under GNU and Unix.
@end defopt
@defopt idlwave-special-lib-alist