Subject: Seeking areas of little or weak documentation
From: Jaime Villate
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:12:22 +0000
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 10:19 -0700, Henry Baker wrote:
> 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.
In fact, that should not be very difficult in Xmaxima. These days that
I've been doing a drastic face-lift to it I might explore that.
A good place to start would be the list of Maxima operators in:
/share/builtins-list.txt
which is currently used in rmaxima for doing command name completion. It
is not complete, but could be updated.
Another feature that seems to have become out of fashion among
developers is example() / demo(). It would be nice to recover it.
Cheers,
Jaime