Subject: some editing tools for maxima /Grumpy old man..
From: Jaime E. Villate
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:26:07 +0000
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 09:02 -0800, Richard Fateman wrote:
> Whereas I object to excessive Make and Perl and C++ and ....
>
> 1. Downloading or installing or building Maxima does not depend on
> emacs.
> 2. Running Maxima (console style) does not depend on emacs.
> 3. I personally use emacs for many other things too, including writing
> papers. I can cut and paste TeX from Maxima to other buffers in a
> productive and natural way. So this is not an extra download, an extra
> burden, etc, FOR ME.
...
> I'm sure I could go on at more length about this; and maybe someone
> could validly claim that a UI like wxmaxima or xmaxima is "just like
> emacs" for some people.
Make and Perl are needed to build Maxima. Users who get pre-built
packages do not need them.
emacs, wxmaxima and xmaxima can be viewed as 3 alternate interfaces for
Maxima, but xmaxima has also another task: if you want to plot graphs,
I do not think we have a lisp-only alternative at this point. You
either install gnuplot, or xmaxima. And there are some plots (plotdf)
that cannot be made with gnuplot. That's what keeps me working on
Xmaxima.
Regards,
Jaime