[Steve Haflich <smh at franz.com>, Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:32:39 -0700]:
> I'm not really familiar with the state of Maxima Emacs technology, but
> modern Emacsen allow arbitrary invisible properties to be attached to
> buffer text, and to display attributed text in various ways. I
> imagine such markup could solve obvious issues such as identifying the
> beginning and end of input and output regions so that buffer
> navigation and editing in a Maxima interacton buffer could be made
> quite natural. But implementation would not a small job.
>From my experience, the current selection of emacs modes and commands
- maxima mode, maxima minor mode, emaxima modes, maxima noweb mode,
maxima-minibuffer-... - works really well and is as natural as one
might want. Jay Belanger did a marvellous job with this.
Albert.