On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 16:49, Abdulhaq Lynch wrote:
> That's very helpful, thanks. Before switching to the socket version, can you
> tell me if it improves this problem:
>
> On entering:
>
> (%i1) integrate(,x);
>
> Maxima sends out three input prompts with various error messages. The problem
> is, how does the GUI client know that Maxima has finished sending data? At
> the moment I keep waiting for Maxima after a syntax error and if I get no
> reply after one second then I assume Maxima has finished. What I would like
> is some sort of terminator from Maxima to say 'Done, awaiting input'
I can reproduce your problem, but I'm afraid I don't have an easy
answer. I don't know what is going on there. The prompt_suffix is
supposed to be the "done, awaiting input" terminator. Unfortunately,
integrate(,x);
will produce three of them.
Please file a bug report.
--Jim