IDLWAVE 5.2 -- http://idlwave.org A major new IDLWAVE release fully qualified for IDLv6.0, including new, updated online HTML help and support for the new assignment operators (+=, etc.). Better continued indent behavior and filename completion are also included. Available now at: http://idlwave.org JD ========================================================================== IDLWAVE Tip of the Month: Wish you could impress your friend and boss with rapid, easy access to the calling syntax, keywords, and in-text help of your own local routines? It's easy using IDLWAVE's Library Catalogs. You make catalogs with the easy to use perl script "idlwave_catalog" supplied with IDLWAVE. Simply go to the directory where you'd like a catalog, and: myhost% idlwave_catalog MyLib where MyLib is the name of your library. All directories containing ".pro" files will be scanned and tagged with an ".idlwave_catalog" file, which are automatically located and loaded by IDLWAVE if they are on your IDL path. To tag different libraries with different names, just repeat this process at the top level directory. If you distribute your library, the catalog information will automatically be available to your users too! To make sure you have the absolute latest routine information for rapidly changing code libraries, you can set up a cron job to scan it every night (don't worry, it's fast even on large files): 09 2 * * 1-5 (cd $HOME/idl/mylib; /path/to/idlwave_catalog MyLib) ==========================================================================