My friend is having this problem. He says he
is considering switching bak to GNUplot for
plotting. Are we looking at something wrong?
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If you define a variable or function to be
plotted which contains a nonnumeric parameter
in addition to the x variable for example,
then Maxima hangs. For example:
F: a*3*x;
plot2d([F], [x,-5,5], [nticks,100])$
hangs up because a is not defined. Maybe this
behaviour is different in Windows than in Unix.
A second unpleasant feature is that nticks is
predefined to 0 by the plot menu. If one leaves
this as is, it gives division by zero.