Screen shots showing IDLWAVE in action with Emacs 21

• New active breakpoint line, showing the breakpoint menu (accessible with right-click), and the pop-up breakpoint information. Also shown at left is the Emacs Speedbar tool (Tools->Display Speedbar), browsing a list of .pro files and their routines.

  

• Version 5.0. Notice the marginal breakpoint glyphs, one conditional, one after 3 hits. The new HTML help is displayed using the emacs w3m mode browser, and the line is stopped in Electric Debug Mode.

  

• An IDLWAVE buffer. Notice the colored syntax and pop-up iMenu navigation of routines in the buffer.

  

• A routine's keyword being completed from the shell. The debugging toolbar, activated when running the shell, is seen. The completed keywords are blue. Right clicking on one queues up the relevant online help, as seen below.

  

• Old text-based online help. The help text for a keyword from the completion menu in the previous screenshot is instantly queued up in a separate frame.

  

• Routine info. The routine info for a command which exists in multiple libraries is shown, sorted according to which is most likely to be used by IDL. Flags indicate the source of routine information.

  

• Stepping through code. The breakpoint is indicated with a red dot. The code is being stepped through, with current location indicated by the arrow at left. A value was printed by shift-clicking it.