reading a string from the keyboard



Hi,

On 09/25/2009 12:28 AM, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:

(defun $readstring (&rest args)
     (princ*prompt-prefix*)
     (mfuncall '$apply '$print `((mlist simp) , at args))
     (princ*prompt-suffix*)
     (force-output)
     (read-line*query-io*  nil nil))


Yes, this is what I was looking for as I am pretty much lisp illiterate...
I just put :lisp in front of it and works well. I would suggest to include
this in the standard maxima package as I probably won't be the last
person looking for this...


Thanks,

Jussi Eloranta
Cal State Northridge