Indeed there is problem with entermatrix on GCL Maxima.
Try entermatrix on the console. It works but old prompts
are repeated. This obviously indicates that some (terpri)
is missing. xmaxima behaves a bit differently and under it
prompt just newer appears on the screen.
With Clisp Maxima entermatrix works fine both on
console and under xmaxima.
synthespian wrote:
> Vadim V. Zhytnikov writes:
> >
> >
> > synthespian wrote:
> >
> > > Hello-
> > >
> > > It seems there's a bug in xmaxima.
> > > My xmaxima runs on a Debian (potato). It was build from Woody
> > > sources with the fakeroot package, according to instructions by Camm
> > > Maguire.
> > > This behavior is odd:
> > >
> > >
> > > (C4) m:entermatrix(3,3);
> > >
> > > Is the matrix 1. Diagonal 2. Symmetric 3. Antisymmetric 4. General
> > > Answer 1, 2, 3 or 4 : Incorrect syntax: : is not a prefix operator
> > > \n:l
> > > ^
> > > (C5) Incorrect syntax: LINEL is not an infix operator
> > > p-quiet (setq linel
> > > ^
> > > (C5) Incorrect syntax: Too many )'s
> > > 112)
> > > ^
> > > (C5)
> > >
> > > Furthermore, it takes __forever__ to evaluate
> > > m:entermatrix(3,3);
> > > This does not happen with the normal potato Maxima package
> > > (not Xmaxima, that is).
> > > What should I do?
> > > TIA,
> > > best regards,
> > >
> > > Henry
> > > synthespian@uol.com.br
> >
> > It is xmaxima feature. Xmaxima at present do not understand EOF.
> > Instead it expects to see ; as the end of input. So just type 1; instead
> > of 1.
> > It is not quite nice but it works. This is true in all other cases when
> > xmaxima ask you for some input.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Vadim
>
> Vadim-
>
> Thanks for helping, but perhaps I haven't explained myself
> quite well.
> Once I enter:
>
> (C4) m:entermatrix(3,3);
>
> maxima "freezes". After a while, it spits out the error. I
> never even get to type "1;" for that matter.
> This is odd...I feel this is a bug...
>
> Regs
> Henry
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