[wxm] wishlist



 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu 
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Andrey G. Grozin
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 8:48 AM
> To: Wolfgang Lindner
> Cc: maxima-help
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] [wxm] wishlist
> 
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Wolfgang Lindner wrote:
> > (wx)Maxima is a wunderful product.
> > So please let me formulate 2 wishes for future releases of wxMaxima.
> >
> > W1: there should be a button 'delete all output'
> > W2: there should be the possibility 'to delay evaluation',
> >    e.g. loading a file 'without auto evaluation of input lines'.
> >    So one could walk stepwise along the inputs from the 
> beginning or elsewhere.

Read about batch  and demo  commands.

Beginning the execution of a file in the middle does not sound like a very
good idea.  My suggestion is that you put in a batch only function
definitions, including some like
Setup():=....

Runproblem(n):= ...

So that after batching in the file you can determine what to do.

RJf


> Both of these features are present in the TeXmacs interface 
> to maxima. And 
> the quality of formula rendering in TeXmacs is higher. Have 
> you tried it?
> 
> Andrey
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