On 2/18/11 3:30 PM, dlakelan wrote:
> On 02/18/2011 11:45 AM, Raymond Toy wrote:
>
>> How is restart() different from quitting maxima and starting maxima
>> again? If there is none, the why spend any time adding this code and
>> testing it?
>
> restart is programmatic, whereas quitting and restarting is not. So
> for example if you want to derive some results under say varying
> assumptions, you might want a single batch file which first makes
> assumptions A and then does some derivation and outputs the results,
> and then resets the whole system and makes assumptions B and then does
> the alternative derivation. As I said, kill(all) and reset() goes a
> long way, but it's not as much of a sure thing as re-execing maxima
> from scratch.
>
> Also I am using maxima normally from within emacs, but sometimes I
> want a stand-alone batch file so that for example I can include it in
> a makefile and have maxima generate TeX output that is included into a
> document.
Well, there you go. Write an elisp function that kills your maxima
session and restarts it. Slime does this nicely for me with Lisp.
I'll think about how this can be done. One issue is that I'm not sure
the running lisp knows where the executable/shell script is. Configure
might have to tell it.
Ray