Subject: Seeking areas of little or weak documentation
From: Henry Baker
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:19:32 -0700
How about at least making it easy to pull up the source code for a particular function to examine? This was a very nice feature of the Lisp Machine, which I don't think has made it into the twenty-first century.
Xmaxima or wxmaxima should be able to find (or be told) where the maxima sources are located in your file system, and then be able to pull up the source code for any function in the system.
Modern systems are neither address-space-constrained, nor file-system-space-constrained, so this capability should be a slam-dunk.