[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Maxima GUIs/emacs troubles! (and commutativity issues)

Greetings!  On my gcl 2.5.0 build, tab completion, backspace, Emacs
keys (i.e. Alt-b to back over a word), and the back arrow all work.
Are you sure you have a working terminal?  Does bash show the expected
behavior?  What about gcl directly from the command prompt?

C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:

> --- 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
> 
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! 
> http://auctions.yahoo.com
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Gcl-devel mailing list
> Gcl-devel@gnu.org
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
> 
> 

-- 
Camm Maguire			     			camm@enhanced.com
==========================================================================
"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."  --  Baha'u'llah