Does Maxima highlighting still works in Emacs in Windows?

>   Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:43:36 +0000
>   From: - <mleoking at gmail.com>
>
>   I have tried to find some relevant docs on how to highlight maxima .mac
>   code in Emacs on Windows XP.
>
>   This one for example: http://symaxx.sourceforge.net/MaximaMode_in_Emacs.html

That is a pretty old page.
See: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MaximaMode

>
>   However, I found no workable solutions.
>
>   The Emacs I am using is 24.3.
>
>   Is anyone still using maxima in Emacs?

Most definitely. There are two distinct modes,

maxima-mode		-- for editing .mac files
inferior-maxima-mode	-- for running a maxima session

and there is also

imaxima-mode		-- a wxmaxima-like interface in emacs

Here is what I put in my .emacs file to use the first two modes. This
is pretty much identical to the emacswiki info I referred to above.

(autoload 'maxima-mode "maxima" "Major mode for writing Maxima programs" t)
(autoload 'maxima "maxima" "Run Maxima interactively" t)

(setq maxima-command "path/to/maxima")
(setq maxima-args '("--lisp=sbcl"))

(add-to-list 'load-path "path/to/interfaces/emacs/emaxima")
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ma[cx]" . maxima-mode))

That's all you need.

Leo