Hi,
I think most of your questions are answered on this page:
http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Howto
You can edit a privious input directly in the output window and
execute it again. The output will replace the previous one. You can
use popup menus or keyboard shortcuts for that. The command line
history is available with up/down arrow keys and the tab key.
Andrej
On 7/8/07, sen1 at math.msu.edu <sen1 at math.msu.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have only used wxmaxima slightly, so please excuse me if this
> question has a simple answer.
>
> Is there a way to display more than one input line at a time, and to
> cut and paste from a previous input line?
>
> These things can be done in xmaxima.
>
> One of the things I find very useful in xmaxima is that one can scroll up
> many screens to find a command input which was made much earlier in
> a session. (It would actually be better if the command history were actually
> searchable, but I don't see how to do that).
>
> Having found a previous command one can actually modify it and
> execute the modification on the fly without even pasting it into
> the current input line. This is a great feature which saves much
> time.
>
> I don't see a similar feature with wxmaxima.
>
> The alternative that I see in wxmaxima is to do a 'stringout'
> command and search the file which is created. The latter
> procedure requires several intermediate steps and is fairly
> cumbersome.
>
> I find the requirement of only one input line at a time
> a severe limitation.
>
> One possibility would be to have another dialog box available (say
> an item on a menu bar which could be activated with a mouse click
> (or keyboard combo) which would contain an upward scrollable list of the previous
> commands in order. When desired, one could open the 'history'
> window, then one could select, (perhaps edit) and execute a previous
> command.
>
> Is something like this already possible?
>
> TIA,
> -sen
>
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