Re: [Maxima-discuss] Saving a \begin{maximasession} ... \end{maximasession} block

[Leo B. <leo...@um...>]

Eduardo Ochs <edu...@gm...> writes:


>> Another (low-level) way to do this is to load emaxima.lisp and set
>> dispaly2d to emaxima.
>>
>> (%i2) load("emaxima.lisp");
>>
>> (%o2) "emaxima.lisp"
>> (%i3) display2d:'emaxima;
>> (%o3) \mathrm{emaxima}
>> (%i4) integrate(x^2,x);
>> (%o4) {{x^3}\over{3}}
>> (%i5) diff(sin(x),x);
>> (%o5) \cos x
>> (%i6) diff(cos(x),x);
>> (%o6) -\sin x
>>
>> It is pretty straightforward to convert that output into the
>> maximasession data you get from using emaxima-mode.
>>
>> Leo
>
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> A question on your first solution... I am using this to make sure
> that an imaxima process is running and to switch to its buffer:
>
>   (defun find-imaximaprocess (&rest rest)
>     (require 'imaxima)
>     (imaxima)
>     (find-ebuffer            ;; this is similar to switch-to-buffer
>      (if imaxima-use-maxima-mode-flag
>          "*maxima*"
>        "*imaxima*")))
>
> I took the
>
>   (if imaxima-use-maxima-mode-flag "*maxima*" "*imaxima*")
>
> from the (cl-defun imaxima () ...). Is there a better way to find
> the name of the imaxima buffer?

ATM, no. I plan to change imaxima so that it can run in several buffers,
but that keeps getting deferred...

>
> Btw, eev now supports imaxima (yay!), but it may be better to
> rewrite the code above a bit... here are some details, for the
> sake of completeness:
>
>   http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eepitch-intro.html#2.3
>   (find-eepitch-intro "2.3. `eepitch'")
>
> About your second solution: it was exactly what I needed! I was
> able to convert its output by hand to the format that emaxima.sty
> expects in just a minute. =) =) =)


BTW, it should be easy enough to write a maxima function to emit exactly
the output that you want (rather than editing it in emacs).

Leo