Maxima emacs mode/fontlock colours



Hi Jay.

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 20:25, Jay Belanger wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I just downladed the newest maxima.el files from CVS, and I have two
> > comments:
> > 
> > 1) Wow, what an improvement over the old one (as included in the
> >    Debian
> > 	package of Maxima 5.6.)
> > 
> > 2) What drugs did the creator of the mode use when choosing the
> >    fontlock
> > 	colours? ;-)
> 
> If you're talking about the maxima.el in the emaxima directory, I was
> using caffeine (lots of it).
Ah, thanks :)
 
> > Jokes aside, I kinda like the gentle, demure, pastel like colours
> > most emacs modes seem to use.  So I'd like to know how I can set the
> > maxima mode to use similar colours.
> 
> The faces are all customizable, so if you go into customize:
> M-x customize-group
> the choose the group maxima, you'll be able to change the colors. 
> 
> What I need to do is have the different levels of font-lock available,
> currently only one level is there, and use the standard font-lock
> faces (e.g. font-lock-keyword-face) instead of custom faces
> (e.g. maxima-keyword-face) where feasible.  I'll do that soon.
Would running maxima.el, through a
s/maxima-keyword-face/font-lock-keyword-face work, do the trick, or is
it more involved than that?  I'd kinda like to avoid choosing the colour
manually, since I can see hours going down the drain...

Anyway, thanks for the tip
Neilen

P.S.
Have you tried useing emaxima with preview-latex?  I have not tried
emaxima yet, but I reckon the combination should be quite sweet :)

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> Jay
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