Re: Top 10 IDL Requests

[Stephen Serjeant <s.serjeant(at)ic.ac.uk>]

Hello,

Jeff Guerber wrote:

>    13) The ability to move up and down the call stack from the 
>   command line.  

Craig Markwardt wrote an excellent package to do just this,
called dxdebug - see
	http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html
It's based around the undocumented ROUTINE_NAMES() function. 

Just one of the many incredibly useful things you pick up 
from lurking in this newsgroup... 

steve serjeant

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