newbie question on evaluation of input cell


Hi Stavros,



Thanks a lot for your very fast reply. I use Windows XP, and the Maxima 

front end is 



wxMaxima 0.8.2



Actually I have installed two different versions of Maxima on two 

different machines; one is Maxima 5.18.1, which shows the behavior I 

described in my mail; and the other is Maxima 5.19.2, which I installed 

on a laptop, and it shows a very different behavior - the input does 

get evaluated by pressing the Enter key, but on the other hand it has 

no buttons at the bottom (the buttons labeled Simplify, Simplify (r), 

Factor, Exoand, ... - there are twenty of them in Maxima 5.18.1). I am 

not clear whether these are all intended behaviors.



The Maxima 5.18.1 behavior is not a problem, it's just that I prefer to 

operate through keystrokes as opposed to clicking on buttons. Hence my 

mail. I would appreciate any suggestion on how to change this setting.



Thanks again.



Shailesh 







On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:08:05 +0530  wrote

>Hi, Shailesh, and welcome to Maxima.



Could you please tell us exactly what front end and version of Maxima 

you are using? For the Maxima version, you can find that with 

build_info(). For the front end, I guess that will be in the Help menu.





The front end to Maxima that I use (xmaxima) has no "cell" concept....



??????? -s



On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Shailesh Ashok Shirali 

 wrote:



Hi,



I have only just started on Maxima and want to find out whether the 



behavior I am seeing (on evaluation of an input cell) is the intended 



one.







When I click on "Insert new cell" (the cogged wheel) I get a red open 



bracket (as intended); but when I enter some input, say







2+3







and press Shift Enter, the cursor simply jumps to the line below (so an 



empty new line gets created). The same happens if I enter the input 



with a semi-colon (2+3;).







But the manual says that that's the way to get the output.







On the other hand, I can get the output by manually highlighting the 



input text (2+3) and clicking the Simplify or Simplify (r) buttons. 







The same is the case for any kind of input, e.g., a summation.







Is the way it is supposed to be or am I missing something?







Thanks!







Shailesh 



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