[Maxima-commits] [git] Maxima CAS branch, master, updated. branch-5_31-base-183-gf44d669

>   From: Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
>   Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:48:30 +0000
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>   On 2013-12-04, Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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>   > Rupert, I wonder if you won't reconsider & revert these commits. I
>   > think they increase the complexity of the display machinery with, at
>   > most, a small offsetting gain.
>   >
>   > You can use the *prompt-prefix* & *prompt-suffix* to achieve what your
>   > commit notes say motivated the commits. See below.
>
>   Well, I see there are 3 related commits. The first (d8dfa0) which
>   collects prompt formatting into a single function, makes sense to me.

Ok, I may have written in haste. I think you are correct after
looking more carefully at the git log of this particular commit. I
will need to build and test before I can say more.

>   I'm leaning against the second (fdcd93) -- as pointed out above,
>   it seems like the existing machinery could be used toward the same
>   end. The third (f44d66) (revised to make use of existing
>   machinery) seems like it would be suitable for a collection of
>   solved problems or how-to cookbook -- not sure if it should be in
>   share.

Agreed.

Leo