maxima mode keybinding complaint



Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

> C-c l in ilisp prompts for a file name, then prompts if you want to
> compile the file first.  After which, it loads the file into the
> running lisp process.

Okay, C-cC-l won't compile the Maxima file, but it will load it.

>     >> What kind of cleanup would you need to do?  
> 
>     Jay> Kill the process.  
> 
> Doesn't killing the buffer do that already?  It does for me on XEmacs
> and a cmulisp process buffer.

I guess it does, I had problems with something similar in the past.
At any rate, killing the buffer will set inferior-maxima-process (the
name maxima-mode uses) to nil.

> For XEmacs running in X windows (not in terminal mode inside an
> xterm), the keys are different.  However, I think in most modes
> they're defined to be the same.  However, C-c RET is defined, but C-c
> C-m is not for me.

That must be a difference between Emacs and XEmacs.

>     Jay> That could be done, but then if someone defines a function which is
>     Jay> the prefix of a built-in function, it could get annoying.
> 
> What does "prefix of a built-in function" mean?  In ilisp mode, the
> help only pops up for something like:
> 
> (destructuring-bind^
> 
> where ^ denotes point.  If I press space here, some help for
> destructuring-bind pops up.  In no other place does help pop up by
> itself.

Well, I was thinking of something like
i:5;
i + 5;

Jay