Good day,
Yes, thanks for the advice. I didn't know about "kill", that's why I had
to quit maxima each time. (It is stupid, but I looked for something like
"reset" or "reload" or "clear"... never though of "kill".)
Indeed
Richard Fateman wrote:
> Your mode of working is similar to what I try to do, and
> I have found some of the same difficulties.
>
> Here is what I think you can do.
>
> 1. Have a separate editor.
> 2. Develop batch scripts.
> a. each script starts with
> writefile(...) ;; open a file for output
> b. each file ends with something like
> save(savefile, all); if you want to save stuff you've computed in easy-to-load form
> kill(a,b,c,..,labels, ..) ;;clean up for the next batch run.
> closefile().
>
> 3. change file names in the script either automatically
> or by hand editing.
> 4. when you want to run, open up a maxima and type batch("script1") etc.
>
> 5. You should not have to quit each time.
>
> Incidentally, I work about the same way with Mathematica.
> RJF
>
> Daniel Lemire wrote:
>
>>Good day Richard,
>>
>>Well, if that's the xmaxima that comes with the RPM I have, I'd rather
>>not. After working with if for a while, I figured out that it is not a
>>good enough GUI.
>>
>>What I do is simple. I have a text editor. I type my commands in it.
>>Then I launch maxima, I type "load" or "batch" and I look at the result.
>>I then type "quit();" and I start over... very, very bad interface.
>>That's the best setup I could find.
>>
>>I just can't use the console interface because I want to be able to save
>>my work in a convenient manner. What I do is rather lengthy. I have a
>>few files with typically 100 lines of maxima code or something... I
>>won't type this line by line every time I went to do some more work....
>>
>>xmaxima doesn't help at all and seems to have serious problems of its
>>own. For example, I have "alt-p" which works... great!!!... but if I
>>want to do cut and paste the unix way, I go, select text and press the
>>middle button... then I'm in hell because the evaluation happens right
>>in the middle of the xmaxima screen and everything is garbled. If I try
>>the windows way, strangely enough, I only have cut and paste... but of
>>course, I want to have copy and paste... I don't want to destroy my
>>outputs or my inputs when I use the clipboard... Not to mention that it
>>seems to be leaving all sorts of dead processes behind...
>>
>>It seems to me like people have worked really hard to design very
>>sophisticated solutions... but what I need is very simple. I want a
>>solution like gnuplot or python where you enter commands, can go back
>>with the arrows, can save your work and so on...
>>
>>After learning to use the maxima engine, I've grown to love it. I'm
>>still convinced that Mathematica and Maple are more powerful, but Maxima
>>does just fine for what I need!
>>
>>If only, I could have a decent interface!!!
>>
>>It would seem like emacs is the best interface around... but how to get
>>it working???
>>
>>Richard Fateman wrote:
>>
>>>Can you use the packaged xmaxima from Schelter's
>>>web site?
>>>Especially if you don't care for emacs..
>>>
>>>I am sorry I can't help you with the GCL version
>>>of maxima.
>>>RJF
>>>
>>>Daniel Lemire wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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...).
>>>>
>>>>I have the latest RPM package for Maxima...
>>>>
>>>> [lemire@lagrange lemire]$ rpm -q maxima
>>>> maxima-5.6-1
>>>>
>>>> And what seems like a decent emacs...
>>>>
>>>> [lemire@lagrange lemire]$ rpm -q emacs
>>>> emacs-20.7-34
>>>>
>>>> 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)
>>>>
>>>> Then, after launching emacs, M-x maxima or M-x maxima-mode gives me
>>>> "cannot open load file: maxima-mode".
>>>>
>>>> I tried various things like copying maxima-mode all over the place,
>>>> giving the full load path... basically, nothing works. I checked the
>>>> file permissions... and so on.
>>>>
>>>> I should point out that I was able to succesfully other .el modes for
>>>> emacs. I'm not totally stupid. I understand the process.
>>>>
>>>> I'm pretty sure emacs finds the files. Anyhow, it finds other .el files
>>>> without any problem.
>>>>
>>>> So what happens??? What are the requirements... ???
>>>>
>>>> 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???
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Daniel Lemire, Ph.D.
>>>>http://www.ondelette.com/
>>>>
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>>>>
>>--
>>Daniel Lemire, Ph.D.
>>
>>http://www.ondelette.com/
>>
>
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Daniel Lemire, Ph.D.
http://www.ondelette.com/