branch: externals/idlwave
commit 74dc6e40d5c6f0663fb615692958fc2c9711f31e
Author: JD Smith <[email protected]>
Commit: JD Smith <[email protected]>
Help location changes and HTML help inline.
---
idlw-help.el | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
diff --git a/idlw-help.el b/idlw-help.el
index bfaebc6f32..609fffa739 100644
--- a/idlw-help.el
+++ b/idlw-help.el
@@ -48,16 +48,18 @@
:group 'idlwave)
(defcustom idlwave-html-help-pre-v6 nil
- "Whether pre or post-v6.0 IDL help documents are being used."
+ "Whether pre or post-v6.0 IDL help documents are being used.
+OBSOLETE. The full link anchor is now stored."
:group 'idlwave-online-help
:type 'boolean)
(defvar idlwave-html-link-sep "#")
-(defcustom idlwave-html-system-help-location "help/"
+(defcustom idlwave-html-system-help-location nil
"The directory, relative to idlwave-system-directory, where the
-idl HTML help files live, for IDL 7.0 and later. This location,
-if found, is used in preference to the old
+idl HTML help files live, for IDL 7.0 and later. By default,
+this location is discovered automatically from the installation.
+This location, if found, is used in preference to the old
idlwave-html-help-location. Note that IDL v6.3-v7.0 used
help/online_help."
:group 'idlwave-online-help
@@ -67,8 +69,8 @@ help/online_help."
(if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
nil
"/usr/local/etc/")
- "The directory where the idl_html_help/ dir lives. Obsolete for IDL
-6.2 or later (see idlwave-html-system-help-location)."
+ "The directory where the idl_html_help/ dir lives.
+OBSOLETE (see idlwave-html-system-help-location)."
:group 'idlwave-online-help
:type 'directory)
@@ -732,7 +734,6 @@ Either loads an HTML link, if LINK is non-nil, or gets
special-help on
the optional arguments, if any special help is defined. If LINK is
`t', first look up the optional arguments in the routine info list to
see if a link is set for it. Try extra help functions if necessary."
-
;; Lookup link
(if (eq link t)
(let ((entry (idlwave-best-rinfo-assoc name type class
@@ -1241,62 +1242,50 @@ Useful when source code is displayed as help. See the
option
(idlwave-help-html-link (concat topic ".html")))))
-
(defun idlwave-html-help-location ()
"Return the help directory where HTML files are, or nil if that is unknown."
- ;; Note that starting with IDL 7, the HTML files are not included directly,
- ;; so this becomes vestigial.
- (let ((syshelp-dir (expand-file-name
- (if (file-directory-p idlwave-html-system-help-location)
- idlwave-html-system-help-location
- (concat (file-name-as-directory
- idlwave-html-system-help-location)
- "online_help"))
- (idlwave-sys-dir)))
- (help-dir (or (and (stringp idlwave-html-help-location)
- (> (length idlwave-html-help-location) 0)
- idlwave-html-help-location)
- (getenv "IDLWAVE_HELP_LOCATION"))))
- (if (and syshelp-dir (file-directory-p syshelp-dir))
- syshelp-dir
- (if help-dir
- (progn
- (setq help-dir (expand-file-name "idl_html_help" help-dir))
- (if (file-directory-p help-dir) help-dir))))))
+ ;; Note that starting with IDL 7, the HTML files are not included
+ ;; directly, so this becomes vestigial, except that with IDL 8.0,
+ ;; HTML files were included again.
+ (let ((sys-dir (idlwave-sys-dir)) help-dir)
+
+ (cond ((and (stringp idlwave-html-system-help-location)
+ (> (length idlwave-html-system-help-location) 0)
+ (file-exists-p (setq help-dir
+ (expand-file-name
+ idlwave-system-html-help-location
+ sys-dir))))
+ help-dir) ;; And explicitly specified directory
+
+ ((file-exists-p (setq help-dir
+ (expand-file-name
+ "help/online_help/IDL/Content" sys-dir)))
+ help-dir) ;; IDL 8.0
+
+ ((file-exists-p (setq help-dir
+ (expand-file-name "help/online_help/" sys-dir)))
+ help-dir) ;; IDL 6.3-7.0
+
+ ((file-exists-p (setq help-dir
+ (expand-file-name "help/" sys-dir)))
+ help-dir)))) ;; IDL <6.3
+
-(defvar idlwave-help-assistant-available nil)
(defvar idlwave-help-use-eclipse-help nil)
(defun idlwave-help-check-locations ()
;; Check help locations and assistant.
- (let ((sys-dir (idlwave-sys-dir))
- idl_uses_assistant)
- (if (not (file-directory-p sys-dir))
- (message "IDL system directory not found: try setting
`idlwave-system-directory' or IDL_DIR.")
- (setq idl_uses_assistant ; "online_help/" only existed for the
- (file-directory-p ; IDL Assistant-based versions of IDL
- (expand-file-name "online_help"
- (concat (file-name-as-directory sys-dir)
- "help"))))
- (if idl_uses_assistant
- (let ((help-loc (idlwave-html-help-location)))
- (if (or (not help-loc)
- (not (file-directory-p help-loc)))
- (message "HTML help location not found: try setting
`idlwave-html-help-location'."))
- ;; see if we have the assistant
- (when (and idlwave-help-use-assistant
- (not (eq (idlwave-help-assistant-available) t)))
- (message "Cannot locate IDL Assistant, enabling default browser.")
- (setq idlwave-help-use-assistant nil)
- (unless idlwave-help-browse-url-available
- (error "browse-url is not available; install it or IDL
Assistant to use HTML help"))))
- ;; No assistant, check for and record eclipse-based help
- ;; (use new location of idl_catalog as indicator).
- (setq idlwave-help-use-eclipse-help
- (file-exists-p (expand-file-name "idl_catalog.xml"
- (expand-file-name
- "help" sys-dir))))))))
-
-
+ (if (not (file-directory-p (idlwave-sys-dir)))
+ (message "IDL system directory not found: try setting
`idlwave-system-directory' or IDL_DIR."))
+
+ ;; see if we have the assistant or eclipse (or nothing)
+ (setq idlwave-help-use-assistant
+ (file-executable-p (idlwave-help-assistant-command))
+ idlwave-help-use-eclipse-help
+ (and (file-executable-p (idlwave-help-eclipse-help-command))
+ (file-exists-p (expand-file-name "idl_catalog.xml"
+ (expand-file-name
+ "help" (idlwave-sys-dir))))
+ (not (file-directory-p (idlwave-html-help-location))))))
;;---- Control the idlhelp Eclipse-based help front-end, which shipped
;;---- with IDL v7.0
@@ -1304,7 +1293,7 @@ Useful when source code is displayed as help. See the
option
;; The Windows version does not have a !DIR/bin/* set of front-end
;; scripts, but instead only links directly to bin.x86. As a result,
;; we must pass the -profile argument as well.
-(defvar idlwave-help-eclipse-help-command
+(defvar idlwave-help-eclipse-help-command
(if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
"idlde/idlhelp.exe"
"bin/idlhelp")
