Re: [Maxima-discuss] Emacs package for Maxima, was: Fwd: dead links on the Related Projects page

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

On Mon, Dec 08 2025, Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> wrote:

> Leo, I don't know if you saw this message about an Emacs package for
> Maxima (https://gitlab.com/sasanidas/maxima). Do you have an opinion
> about that? What do you think about the idea of merging that package
> into the maxima repo?

Hello,

Yes, I am aware of this work, and watched his talk on it (was it really
2020?).

From memory: the modifications rely on several packages (not just those
mentioned in this thread), which I do not use and which I would not want
to force others to install just to use (e)maxima.el. The package also
re-wrote the way symbols are collected: instead of putting them in the
elisp code, as is done now, the lists are moved to plain text files). I
thought this was a step backward: in my opinion, we should be collecting
the symbols from the documentation and/or source code.

One big improvement, that I/we should merge, is the re-organized
documentation. I have a partially completed edit of this, which has
languished on my hard-drive, but I should merge that.

I am open to others' points of view on the merits of merging in other
parts of that work.

Leo


>
> best,
>
> Robert
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM Hemza <hem...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> in his talk in EmacsConf2020, FMF answer this question, I quote:
>>
>>        Q8 Are you planning to upstream your package into Maxima? (would be nice
>>
>>         [Fermin] I would love to add the package to the maxima
>> official repository, but I don't know if I can use the GitLab CI/CD
>> from the main repository, if the answer is yes, then It shouldn't be
>> too much trouble.
>>
>> IMHO, this decision is left to dev, if the Maxima dev finds this a
>> feature complete/rich (no activity for 2 years!), it would be nice to
>> pull it into the maxima repo. but it is already on MELPA, so it is not
>> a problem for an Emacs user to install and use.
>>
>> hkh
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 at 22:06, ehm <eri...@gm...> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2025-12-08 at 21:45 +0100, Hemza wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Also, I hope you add "maxima-mode"
>> > > (https://gitlab.com/sasanidas/maxima) by Fermin MF to the list, it is
>> > > like imaxima.
>> > >
>> > > hkh
>> > > _______________________________________________
>> > >
>> >
>> > This looks like an updated/extended version of the maxima.el in
>> > interfaces/emacs/emaxima. (Extended to use the emacs company and
>> > polymode packages...)
>> >
>> > So, should it be pulled into the official maxima repo, or just linked
>> > to on the related projects page?
>> >
>> > -Eric
>> >
>> >
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