2009/2/26 Leo Butler <l.butler at ed.ac.uk>:
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>
> < Is there any home made emacs mode for maxima? Googling din't help much.
>
> The standard installation of maxima comes with .el files that define
> maxima-mode and maxima-script-mode. In the maxima directory you'll find
>
> $ ls interfaces/emacs/emaxima/
> emaxima.el ?emaxima.lisp ?emaxima.sty ?Makefile ?Makefile.am
> Makefile.in ?maxima.el ?maxima-font-lock.el
>
> Also, here is the relevant code to put in ~/.emacs:
>
> (autoload 'maxima-mode "maxima" "Major mode for writing Maxima programs" t)
> (autoload 'maxima "maxima" "Run Maxima interactively" t)
> (setq load-path (cons "~/maxima/maxima-5.16.3/interfaces/emacs/emaxima" load-path))
> (setq load-path (cons "~/maxima/maxima-5.16.3/interfaces/emacs/misc" load-path))
> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ma[cx]" . maxima-mode) auto-mode-alist))
>
> <
> < Also, since I'm here, is it possible to pass a lambda function as
> < argument to another function & call it from the latter?
>
> I'm not sure if this is what you want, but
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> (%i75) f(x,y) := apply(x , [y]);
> (%o75) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? f(x, y) := apply(x, [y])
> (%i76) f(lambda([u],u^2),y);
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2
> (%o76) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?y
>
> Cheers,
> Leo
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Thanks Leo!
Both worked fine!
Cheers,
Stathis