Subject: Customizing Maxima. Renaming Maxima functions
From: Sheldon Newhouse
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:24:35 -0400
Richard Hennessy wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I would like to rename some Maxima commands somehow. By rename I literally mean rename, the old name won't work anymore
> after it is done. e.g. I would like to change "integrate" to "rsum" for example. So rsum(x^2,x) will return 1/3*x^3
> and rsum(x^2,x,0,1) will return 1/3 and also all error messages would be the same as if rsum were integrate. Can
> someone help me? Also undoing this would be good to know too so I can change the name in a block and then change it
> back at the end of the block for example.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>
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try
alias
e.g.
(%i1) display2d: false;
(%o1) false
(%i2) integrate(x^2,x);
(%o2) x^3/3
(%i3) alias(rsum,integrate);
(%o3) [rsum]
(%i4) rsum(x^2,x);
(%o4) x^3/3
I don't know how to remove the aliases without restarting maxima.
-sen