problem in interaction of imaxima and maxima mode

Hi Nikos,

Thanks for the updated information and another bug report.
I will need some time to reproduce it.

Yasuaki Honda / Chiba, Japan

On 2007/05/05, at 11:10 AM, Nikos Apostolakis wrote:

> Nikos Apostolakis <nikos.ap at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yasuaki Honda <yhonda at mac.com> writes:
>>>
>>> The output prompt is inserted to the result string, which seems  
>>> to be
>>> a bug.
>>> I have filed this bug in my imaxima bug tracking database.
>>>
>>> However, as you see in my case, there is no extra white space in the
>>> result.
>>> To know the cause of the differences, could you please inform me  
>>> your
>>> working
>>> environment in detail?
>>>
>>> Specifically I would like to know:
>>> the version of Maxima you use, the version of Maxima you obtained  
>>> the
>>> maxima.el from, info on Emacs, operating system, and the lisp...
>>>
>>
>> I use the maxima that is packaged in Debian sid (unstable).
>
> Actually I just realized that this is not true!  The maxima I was
> running is the one that comes with sage-2.4.2.  I don't know if this
> matters.  In any case, now I have updated to maxima 5.12 (the one
> that comes with Debian) and the situation is similar to what you
> describe.  The output prompt is inserted together with the output
> but no extra spaces.
>
> I noticed the following additional problem though.  With the
> standard maxima mode when there is output already present it is
> replaced by the new outcome.  With imaxima however If there is
> already an output when I give "C-u C-c C-n -r" emacs hangs.  The old
> output is erased and the region is send to imaxima, and there is
> output in the *imaxima* buffer -- all output but the last -- but
> after sending the last command emacs seems to go to an infinite
> loop.  I have to "C-g" and then "C-c C-c" to be able to get maxima
> back.
>
> Thanks,
> Nikos
>
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