Thanks re "alias". That certainly helps.
I'm still curious if output can easily be tweaked, tho. I might want to use it other places, as well.
At 07:25 AM 6/27/2012, Barton Willis wrote:
>Henry Baker wrote
>>Due to the amount of space taken up by Maxima writing out "conjugate(foo)" in full for every conjugated
>>variable, I'd love to shorten this to " foo' " (or equivalent). I'm not so worried about
>>_input_ of conjugate as _output_.
>> Is there any "easy"/"trivial" way to accomplish this in Maxima ?
>
>Maybe an alias will work for you:
>
>(%i31) alias(cc,conjugate)$
>
>(%i32) declare(z,complex)$
>
>(%i33) conjugate(z);
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>(%o33) cc(z)
>
>By the way: I've had this same problem too.
>
>Memory-wise, I think it doesn't make any difference, but for visually examining an long expression, it can make a difference.
>
>--Barton (author of conjugate)