On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 09:40 -0400, sen1 at math.msu.edu wrote:
> On the manual, how about an extra button in the xmaxima window under
> "Help" which would allow the user to use firefox, iexplorer, etc to open the
> manual? One button could say "browser manual" and the other could
> say "html manual"
yes, that would be easy to do and since we already have menu entries
that open a external browser with some of the project's pages, it makes
sense to have another entry for the manual.
However, I will only do that change after the 5.10 release because it
is a new feature and not a bug fix, and we don't want to delay 5.10
any longer.
> Also, would it be difficult to allow users to select their own editors
> in the editor window. So, one could choose "notepad, word, emacs,
> etc"
I don't understand what you're talking about; I'm not aware of any use
of an external editor. Can you explain what you do in Xmaxima to make it
launch an external editor?
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:31 -0400, sen1 at math.msu.edu wrote:
> Someone earlier said that
> adding search or even line breaks to the function list in the xmaxima
> browser was difficult.
Those two things are not difficult to do, assuming that you are talking
about a search in the current HTML page, as in Firefox.
The second feature (line breaks in the function list) has already been done,
because the modification was so trivial that I thought it would not add any
entropy to the 5.10 release process. Adding a search feature will involve
several lines of code, so I will include it in the list of features that
I'll work on after 5.10 is released.
Regards,
Jaime Villate