Emaxima Emacs Mode (Was Re: [Maxima] User Manual)

C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:

> > Thanks, from also (I'm sure) Jürgen Tischer and William Schelter.
> > 
> > What part of the TeX part didn't work?  If I get some details,
> > perhaps
> > I can fix it.  
> 
> That's my fault, actually - mactex.lisp didn't get installed in 5.5,
> for some reason.  I've got to fix my Maxima install.
> 
> > Ideally, Maxima would have a switch that
> > would allow the output to be already in TeX form, much like there is
> > currently the option to use 1D or 2D output. 
> 
> I agree that would be good - how much work do you think that would be?

Probably not too much, although I really don't know.

> > I don't know, I haven't tried it.
> > If no-one else tries it, I can install NTEmacs on my wife's computer
> > and test it out.
> 
> I've also got access to a Windows machine - I'll see if I can give it a
> shot.

Great.

> Well, in older versions it just gave me a parenthesis mismatched error
> - this would only happen once in a while.  In the new emaxima, here's
> what I'm getting occasionally:
> 
> error in process filter: Invalid regexp: "Unmatched ) or \\)" [2 times]

I never got that, the the process filter is somewhat large, for
debugging.  Try using the latest maxima.el (which is where the process
filter is), which has a simpler filter (without the maxima debugging
stuff).  (The more complicated filter can be used by setting 
inferior-maxima-use-debug to t before the process is started.)
With the simpler filter, either the problem won't occur, or it'll be
easier to track down.
The latest version is in the Maxima cvs, in the directory emacs.

Jay