some editing tools for maxima



On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 01:45:11AM -0500, sen1 at math.msu.edu wrote:
> This works great. Thanks, Robert.
> 
> Now, how about a 'history' like function.
> 
> I know one can use 'save' and 'stringout' to write commands,
> functions, etc to a file.
> 
> But, if one used a certain 'plot' command, or 'solve' command, it
> would be nice to call it up again without
>        saving to a file, searching in the file, and then cutting and
>        pasting to get it back into the current session.

I think the way that most people deal with this issue is by using one
or another of the UI packages on top of maxima. In particular I use
both wxMaxima and the maxima interactive mode in emacs. On Debian
systems these packages are called "wxmaxima" and "maxima-emacs"




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