Re: [Maxima-discuss] Who is maintaining the emacs lisp code, e.g. dbl.el?

[Rocky B. <ro...@gn...>]

I am definitely not a good person to ask, since you probably know more
about maxima than I.

But I'll share the little that I have been able to figure out until someone
more knowledgeable responds.

Mention of dbl.el is listed in the debugging section of the Maxima manual
<http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/maxima_38.html>. dbl.el really
seem to be part of GCL (GNU Common Lisp) which William Shelter also worked
on.

So I suspect what one should do is get GCL set up for Emacs or look there
for instructions. (I happen to have recently subscribed to this mailing
list and so I asked here. By the way, I probably won't be following the
mailing list that closely so things that are directed to me, should be cc'd
to me.)

I pulled down the git sources for maxima and it does distribute a dbl.el,
sshell.el, and so on.
And looking at the git history, in fact wfs (who I assume is William F
Shelter) was indeed the last person to modify these. For dbl, the date is
circa April 2001 not long before he died.

In an ideal world, what should happen is that this get added to one of the
current Emacs package distribution channels like ELPA or MELPA and this
presumably duplicate code with GCL would get removed.  Of course it would
need someone to maintain it.



On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Peter Torpey <pto...@gm...> wrote:

> Where can I find instructions for setting up maxima with emacs: i.e., what
> do I need to install, how do I set it up, some simple tips for getting
> started?
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> Thanks.
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> --Pete
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> *From:* Rocky Bernstein [mailto:ro...@gn...]
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 7, 2017 9:36 AM
> *To:* max...@li...
> *Subject:* [Maxima-discuss] Who is maintaining the emacs lisp code, e.g.
> dbl.el?
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> I started looking at dbl.el, sshell.el and so on with an eye to
> integrating it into realgud <https://github.com/realgud/realgud> The
> copyright in the files hasn't changed from 1998 and is maintained by
> William F. Schelter who unfortunately has passed on.
>
> Has the elisp code changed since then? Emacs definitely has. I imagine
> people are still using dbl.el, right? Could sshell which it requires be
> replaced by comint, or could sshell be modified to use comint?
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> A problem with using sshell in realgud is that realgud requires some
> callback hooks;  sshell, as far as I can tell, doesn't provide these. See
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/34868/how-can-i-
> emulate-eshell-comint-output-filter-functions-in-term where the same
> thing is asked with respect to term.
>