Numerical evaluation etc.

> (C2) EV(exp(1.0+sqrt(-1.0)),NUMER);
> The documentation claims this should be expanded ...

Starting with the symbolic expression:

  expr: exp(1+%i)$

you can get the numeric value in rectangular form:

  rectform(expr),numer;

or in polar form:

  polarform(expr),numer;

I agree that the documentation needs to be improved.  For that matter,
the system's behavior could be more intuitive.  The problem here is that
Maxima does not treat %i as a "number".