Daniel Lemire <daniel.lemire@ns.sympatico.ca> writes:
> I'm trying to get the emacs maxima mode working. I've never used emacs
> very much, I don't really care for it... the real solution to my itch
> would be a "working" console maxima (with support for things like
> backspace...).
Then you should try Maxima with CLISP instead of GCL.
Or, even better, use Maxima under TeXmacs.
...
> I've edited my .emacs file adding the following lines...
>
> (autoload 'maxima-mode "maxima-mode" "Maxima editing mode" t)
> (autoload 'maxima "maxima-mode" "Running Maxima interactively" t)
maxima-mode.el provides maxima-mode, a maxima editing mode, but then
running maxima interactively is done with run-maxima.
maxima.el provides maxima-mode and running maxima interactively is
done with maxima.
Which are you using? If the latter, then the lines above should read
(autoload 'maxima-mode "maxima" "Maxima editing mode" t)
(autoload 'maxima-mode "maxima" "Running Maxima interactively" t)
If the file really is maxima-mode.el, then we have a mystery.
> Any chance anyone (not me) will ever fix the console app so that it
> works like a standard console app (say, gnuplot....???) I got some
> email from someone at some point (can't recall who) about a fix for
> the console app...??? Whatever happened to this???
Probably the ability to edit lines comes from the underlying lisp.
Changing to CLISP would take care of it.
Jay