Maxima GUIs/emacs troubles! (and commutativity issues)

--- Daniel Lemire <daniel.lemire@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> Ok, I built both GCL and maxima... seems to work so far. I do have 
> backspace... that's nice.
> 
> Not to be ungrateful or anything, but why can't I get the back arrow 
> now? ;-) Right now, if you make a mistake at the beginning of an 
> expression, you have delete it all to correct the mistake. This
> reminds  me of the good old days... back when 16 KB was a lot of 
> memory... ;-) Is it just me or is lisp really backward?

Clisp will allow the back arrow - I'm not really sure why gcl isn't,
provided you are using the .  Camm?

> Ok, well things got a bit better... now, I'm just hoping that some of
> the bugs I found (should I report computational bugs? what is the
> state of maxima??? I suspect some of these bugs are lisp related...?)

Go ahead and report them - whatever the cause, it needs to be
identified and fixed.

You can also enter them into the bug tracker at the sourceforge project
site - that's probably the best way to make sure they are checked when
we get ready to release (whenever that is.)

CY


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