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The IDLWAVE Shell
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   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
IDL interactively, to compile and run IDL programs in Emacs buffers and
to debug these programs.  The IDLWAVE shell uses `comint', an Emacs
packages which handles the communication with the IDL program.
Unfortunately IDL for Windows and MacOS does not allow the interaction
with Emacs(1), so the IDLWAVE shell only works under GNU and Unix.

Starting the Shell

How to launch IDL as a subprocess

Using the Shell

Interactively working with the Shell

Debugging IDL Programs

Compilation/Debugging

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   (1) Please inform the maintainer if you come up with a way to make
the IDLWAVE shell work on these systems.