[Maxima-discuss] A `batch' that does not ignore whitespaces?

[Eduardo O. <edu...@gm...>]

Hi list,

the manual entry for `batch', in

  (info "(maxima)batch")

contains this:

  Spaces, tabs, and newlines in the file are ignored.

Here's an example, as always,

--snip--snip--
• (eepitch-shell)
• (eepitch-kill)
• (eepitch-shell)
cat > /tmp/b <<'%%%'
nary("=.");
a =. b
  =. c
  =. d;
%%%

• (eepitch-maxima)
• (eepitch-kill)
• (eepitch-maxima)
nary("=.");
a =. b
  =. c
  =. d;
batch("/tmp/b")$
--snip--snip--

and the log of its part in Maxima:

--snip--snip--
(%i1) nary("=.");
(%o1)                                 =.
(%i2) a =. b
  =. c
  =. d;
(%o2)                          a =. b =. c =. d
(%i3) batch("/tmp/b")$

read and interpret /tmp/b
(%i4) nary("=.")
(%o4)                                 =.
(%i5) a =. b =. c =. d
(%o5)                          a =. b =. c =. d
(%i7)
--snip--snip--

Is there an easy way to make batch, or some similar function, run
without deleting the whitespace and the ";"s? That would be very
useful to me - my current way of LaTeXing Maxima logs has several
parts that need to be run interactively, and this variant of batch
would simplify the process a lot...

Hints pointing no not-so-easy ways, like "try to modify the parts such
and such of the functions such and such in mload.lisp", will probably
be useful too...

  Thanks in advance =),
    Eduardo Ochs