On 6/10/06, van Nek <van.nek at arcor.de> wrote:
> neither in inti-cl.lisp nor in dir_vars.txt I find the variables
> offered in ui-tips.shtml.
> So it seems there is an update necessary.
I agree that the environment variables should be documented,
but the place to put that is in the texinfo documents.
We could create a new node named "Environment variables".
Probably we can just cut-n-paste from the man page
(not ui-tips.shtml) into Runtime.texi.
> Variables like *maxima-tempdir* and *maxima-userdir*
> should be available at Maxima level.
Not sure that we should do that. I can see some utility
of exposing these 2, but there are about 12 more ...
> In addition to our discussion about postscript plotting
> one can think about a variable $maxima_gsviewdir
> for the location of gsview32.exe (ghostview) on Windows,
> which is false by default and could be set if ghostview is installed.
I don't think we should do this. As I've suggested elsewhere,
if plot2d/plot3d writes something to a file, Maxima shouldn't
try to display it.
FWIW
Robert