6.081 Software: Emacs on Athena

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spring Semester, 2007
6.081: Introduction to EECS 1

Installing on Athena

These instructions are for using Python, IDLE, and SoaR on Athena. If you would prefer to use Emacs, follow the instructions for setting up Emacs Python mode.

To get started, open up a terminal and do:

athena% add 6.081

Then, type one of the following three commands at the athena% prompt:

6.081-python will start the Python 2.5 interpreter (since 2.3, the version installed on Athena, does not work with SoaR)
6.081-idle will start IDLE for Python 2.5; use this instead of idle on Athena to edit your Python files
SoaR will start SoaR

To avoid having to type add 6.081 every time you login to Athena, you can add the following to a file called .cshrc.mine in your home directory (create it if it doesn't exist):

# 6.081 
add 6.081