Defining file_type extensions



On 02/13/2011 01:39 AM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> On 2/12/11 6:25 PM, David Billinghurst wrote:
>>
>> The file suffixes used by load are hard coded in function $file_type
>> in mload.lisp.
>>
>>     (defun $file_type (fil)
>>        (let ((typ ($pathname_type fil)))
>>          (cond
>>            ((member typ '("l" "lsp" "lisp") :test #'string=)
>>             '$lisp)
>>            ((member typ '("mac" "mc" "demo" "dem" "dm1" "dm2" "dm3" "dmt")
>>                 :test #'string=)
>>             '$maxima)
>>            (t
>>             '$object))))
>>
>> You could put a modified version of this function in your
>> maxima-init.lisp file - see
>> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ui-tips.html
> This has come up several times now.  Perhaps it's time to allow the user
> to change this easily.
>
> I propose adding two new variables $file_type_lisp and
> $file_type_maxima, defaulting to the values above.  Then the user can
> change them however they want.
Yes please. That would be great.

Andre