Bug in Windows Xmaxima, was: Re: [Maxima] On vacation from 8/7 till 8/15

On 8/14/06, Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru> wrote:
> ... as soon as you hit [Enter] the line is
> passed to maxima to maxima and can't be retrieved back
> for editing.  Xmaxima has no multiline editing facility...
>
> ...unlike honest console programs, it pretends that you are able to
> edit previous lines.  It let you erase "2+" while in fact this "2+"
> is already passed to maxima and is already out of xmaxima reach.
> This is very confusing and is the only reason I don't
> use xmaxima much.

This is worse than very confusing.  It is a bug.  Since xmaxima
doesn't support editing previous lines, it shouldn't act as though it
is editing previous lines.

Until xmaxima can be fixed to support multiline editing properly, it
should at least simply refuse to erase things from previous lines,
beeping or whatever instead of moving the cursor back.

            -s