Re: [Maxima-discuss] Status of 5.48.1

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

On 8/6/25 12:07 AM, Jaime Villate via Maxima-discuss wrote:

> No. I use the standard install path recommended by the installer 
> (C:\maxima-current) , and my user directory is very simple 
> (C:\Users\jaime). It has been working correctly since last year; 
> something went wrong with yesterday's installation. I guess is just a 
> temporary glitch; I will try again next week when I return from a trip.
>
> By the way, "output_format_for_help:html" works fine in Windows, but 
> the user should also change the default value of browser ("start") to 
> the real name of a browser (e.g. browser:"firefox"), or change the 
> base_url to one with http or https (e.g. 
> "https::/maxima.sourceforge.io/docs/manual").

Using maxima.sourceforge.io/docs/manual is not going to work very well 
unless the lisp index was built using the same version as the site.

I would very definitely *not* recommend doing this unless you know for a 
fact it would work.

>
> This is because the following two commands work fine in Windows CMD:
>      start https://site/page#section
>      start browser file://path/page#section
>
> But the command:
>      start file://path/page#section
>
> opens "page" at the top, but not in the requested "section". I've 
> tried many things people recommended to protect the # character 
> (quotes, ^, encoding, give a page title, ...) but nothing works.

Maybe we should just set browser to "msedge" on windows. The Edge 
browser should be available on every Windows machine. Chrome or Firefox 
are probably available, but we don't know for sure.

Of course, this is just a workaround for the issue.

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