I have put version 1.31 of idl.el at the following locations:

   ftp://fermi.jhuapl.edu/pub/idl_emacs/idl.el
ftp://eos.crseo.ucsb.edu/pub/idl/idl.el.Z

idl.el is an intelligent editing mode used in GNU emacs (and Xemacs
which others use but I don't) for your ".pro" files.  Also at the same
locations you can find idl-shell.el for running IDL as a subprocess of
emacs.

If you don't use emacs to edit IDL ".pro" files then this will not be
relevant to you.

The comments at the beginning of the file describe the mode use,
installation and customization.

Changes in this version:

o    syntax table change.  Changed the syntax of "$" and "_"
     to be symbol constituent characters which means they are
     no longer considered word constituent characters.  This
     changes how word oriented commands work, e.g. M-d and
     M-DEL will no longer kill an entire IDL identifier
     (variable name) containing "$" or "_".  To operate on an
     entire IDL identifier (variable name) use the sexp style
     commands, e.g. backward-kill-sexp, mark-sexp,
     kill-sexp. "C-h b" will show what keys those commands are
     bound to.

o    idl-make-tags function that creates an IDLTAGS file.  Then
     using the emacs tags function one can quickly jump to a
     function/pro definition in any file. [contributed by Lubos
     Pochman <lubos@rsinc.com>]

o    idl-doc-modification: Now uses idl-timestamp-hook which by
     default uses idl-default-insert-timestamp.  This allows one
     to have a customized timestamp.  [contributed by
     mugnier@onera.fr (Laurent MUGNIER)]


Chris
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