Robert Dodier writes:
>> Personally, I find missing newlines much more annoying than blank
>> lines, so, frankly, if we are in a hurry for the release, I'd suggest
>> to revert Viktor's patch in the release branch.
>
> well, even simpler than reverting the patch is to put (FRESH-LINE)
> at the top of DISPLA. so maybe i'll do that to the release branch
> and we can continue working on the development branch.
In any case, the changes which introduced the current behaviour are
here
http://members.inode.at/wjenkner/maxima/toth-newlines.diff
Wolfgang