6. Installation

6.1 Installing IDLWAVE

IDLWAVE is part of Emacs 21.1 and later. It is also an XEmacs package and can be installed from the XEmacs ftp site with the normal package management system on XEmacs 21. These pre-installed versions should work out-of-the-box. However, the HTML files required for online HTML help are not distributed with XEmacs/Emacs and have to be installed separately(10) (see section 6.2 Installing Online Help).

You can also download IDLWAVE and install it yourself from the maintainers webpage. Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file.

6.2 Installing Online Help

If you want to use the online help display, an additional set of files (HTML versions of the IDL documentation) must be installed. These files can also be downloaded from the maintainers webpage. You need to place the files somewhere on your system and tell IDLWAVE where they are with

(setq idlwave-html-help-location "/path/to/help/dir/") ;e.g. /usr/local/etc

Note that the help package only changes with new versions of the IDL documentation, and need not be updated unless your version of IDL changes.

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