Subject: Standard maxima installation under Linux?
From: James Hart
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:15:14 -0500
On 2/14/06, Andrey G. Grozin <A.G.Grozin at inp.nsk.su> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, James Hart wrote:
> > So, do all questions that interrupt evaluation in Maxima have at least
> > one line ending in a question mark? (All the ones I've seen have, but
> > I haven't been comprehensive by any stretch of the imagination.)
> Oh, NO!! Please, not THIS approach again.
That's why I asked, instead of doing it. I wasn't sure if Maxima
allowed ? to be used in other places. Since it can, I'd better not.:)
>
> TeXmacs, wxMaxima (and maybe other front-ends) assign some strings to
> *prompt-prefix* and *prompt-suffix*. If these strings contain some
> non-printable chars (ctrl-chars, for example), then they can unambuguously
> identify prompts (including questions). No need to parse maxima output (in
> addition to being tedious, this approach is very unreliable: what if a
> user writes some string ending in a question mark, or the string "(%i123)"
> ?
This looks a whole lot more promising. I'll see how it does.
>
> Andrey
>