maxima-5.29.* and imaxima



If it can be useful, there is the same bug reported on Gentoo bug tracker
with instructions for reproducing it:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448242

Stefano


2013/1/1 Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net>

>    >From mailnull  Tue Jan  1 19:47:12 2013
>    From: Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
>    Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 19:46:27 +0000
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>
>    Volker van Nek <volkervannek <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>    > I wonder whether it is possible to load imaxima with the option to use
>    > an older installed version of Maxima, like it is possisible to call a
>    > desired version of Maxima with e.g.
>    >
>    > maxima -l ecl -u 5.28.0
>    >
>    > in a terminal. Is it? Or is there a imaxima config file which allows
> the same?
>
>    As far as I can tell, the only way to specify the Maxima
>    executable for imaxima is to change the value of
>    imaxima-maxima-program in imaxima.el. I don't see a way
>    to specify that on a command line, in ~/.emacs, or in Emacs itself.
>    Maybe someone else knows better.
>
> You want to set imaxima-maxima-options, I think. This can be done via
> M-x customize-variable or you can use elisp's dynamic scope and rebind
> it inside a special command:
>
> (defun imaxima-old-maxima ()
>  (interactive)
>  (let ((imaxima-maxima-options (format "%s -l ecl -u 5.28.0"
> imaxima-maxima-options)))
>    (imaxima)))
>
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