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wxMaxima changing straight quotes in maxima-init.mac to left/right quotes.

Jack
2019-09-04
2019-12-21
  • Jack

    Jack - 2019-09-04

    Mac Mojave using wxmaxima from homebrew 19.8.0 (actually my own compile of 19.8.1 at the moment)

    This one really confused me: straight quotes in my maxima-init.mac were being turned into smart quotes, causing maxima to fail to launch, and wxmaxima to get stuck on the first cell calculation.

    Just now I saw the new Preferences > Startup Configuration, where the bottom text field in the wxMaxima config has the commands from my maxima-init.mac, but has changed the quotes to left and right quotes. and when I try to edit them to straight quotes, they immediately change back again. "Smart quotes" should clearly not be applied to the maxima-init.mac file...

    gnuplot_command: “/usr/local/bin/gnuplot”$
    draw_command: “/usr/local/bin/gnuplot”$
    load(draw)$
    set_draw_defaults(terminal=qt)$

     
  • Gunter Königsmann

    In theory I had turned off MacOs's smart substitutions it comes with by default. But there is a second way to turn them off => The next release will be with the other way that is used in all of the wizards.

     
  • David Goldenberg

    I just discovered the same problem, using wxMaxima 19.12.1, installed with homebrew.
    Thanks,
    David