== IDLWAVE 4.10 Release (http://idlwave.org) ==

   JD Smith, who has lots of ideas for how to make the
   idlwave emacs mode better, but who lets Carsten do all
   the work, has this to say...
             -- David Fanning, 2001. www.dfanning.com

Shamed into action by our society's foremost social critic,
I hereby announce that I'll no longer be letting Carsten do
all the work, and have taken over as maintainer of IDLWAVE,
the Emacs mode for IDL development, shell interaction, and
much more.

First I'd like to thank Carsten personally, and on behalf of
the entire IDL user community, for the hard work, patient
effort, and limitless flexibility that went into making
IDLWAVE what it is today.  I'll truly be standing on the
shoulders of giants.  Luckily, this giant will remain around
to help one of more limited stature confront the challenges
to come.

That said, I now announce availability of IDLWAVE v4.10,
with full support for IDL v5.5, including integration of
extensive updated documentation materials available only in
the "What's New" manual.  Look for it at the new IDLWAVE
website: http://idlwave.org (please update your links).

The important new features of IDLWAVE v4.10:

- Fully qualified for IDLv5.5, with continued support for
  older versions.
- Integrates new and updated routines, arguments, keywords,
  and system variables taken from "What's New" directly into
  the text-based online help, and routine info database.
- Minor improvements to quick-shell mode (idlwave-shell
  'quick), which allows you to bring up an IDL shell in
  Emacs quickly (instead of an xterm).

A sample of the update help:

IDL> a=congrid([C-c ?]

The routine info panel shows:

====================================================================
Usage:    Result = CONGRID( Array, X, Y, Z)
Keywords: CENTER CUBIC INTERP MINUS_ONE
Sources:  - SystemLib   [C--] /usr/local/rsi/idl_5.5/lib/congrid.pro
          - Library     [C--] ~/idl/fanning/xcolors.pro
====================================================================

Right click on the newly introduced keyword "CENTER" and up
pops a help buffer beginning:

====================================================================
      CENTER
      <NEW>If this keyword is set, the interpolation
      is shifted so that points...
====================================================================

For those of you still wading through "What's New" to find
the rest, now might be the time to give IDLWAVE and Emacs a
try.

JD Smith