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

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

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On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Richard Fateman <fa...@be...>
wrote:

> If you are willing to use emacs,


What does this mean?  It sounds like people who use maxima have a problem
using emacs? Clearly  William F. Schelter
didn't feel that was an obstacle in 2011 or else he wouldn't have worked on
the Elisp code. So what's changed?


then the very simplest interface -- the one I use sometimes -- entirely
> without
> special emacs macros etc, can be run in windows/emacs.
>   This is useful to me if I want to
> record the total interaction, including interspersed lisp or debugging
> etc, without any "user interface"
> that requires the use of menus, or tries to display images.
>
> I start up emacs
> I start a windows shell command buffer by typing
> esc x  shell
>

If this is what you do, then you are running what is called a "comint
shell",
and that's what realgud uses. Ok. So I'll add a +1 for don't bother with
dbl.el or sshell.el

c:\maxima-5.40.0\bin\maxima.bat
>
> that's all.
>
> oh, commands look like    x+y; <newline>
>
> I suppose that I could spend time learning extra commands specific to
> Maxima,
> but I don't care to invest that time. (and I would probably forget the
> details
> between uses.)
>
> The big advantage in using emacs for me is that I can keep my fingers on
> the
> keyboard, and not reach for a mouse, or poke at the F1-F12 keys. I modify
> the
> windows registry so that caps-lock is replaced by control.
>
> Good luck
>
>
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