Subject: some editing tools for maxima /Grumpy old man..
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:08:20 -0500
>>>>> "Jaime" == Jaime E Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> writes:
Jaime> 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.
Jaime> ...
>> 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.
Jaime> Make and Perl are needed to build Maxima. Users who get pre-built
Jaime> packages do not need them.
Jaime> emacs, wxmaxima and xmaxima can be viewed as 3 alternate interfaces for
Jaime> Maxima, but xmaxima has also another task: if you want to plot graphs,
Jaime> I do not think we have a lisp-only alternative at this point. You
For lisp-only alternatives, there's Garnet which as a nice 2D plot
package <http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/rvb/software/plot-2d/>;
There's also SciGraph which runs with McCLIM. A screenshot of
SciGraph can be found at <http://lemonodor.com/archives/000189.html>;
and McCLIM can be found at <http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/>;.
Garnet is, more or less, unmaintained. McCLIM has a pretty active
developer group. McCLIM, being in Lisp, has the potential of creating
a really well-integrated GUI for maxima.
Ray