Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Yes, after I sent my message, I also thought that it would be even better if
> one could have a function "get-fricas-symbol-list" in fricas.el that connects
> to fricas and calls
> 
> )lisp (|allOperations|)
> )lisp (|allConstructors|)
> 
> to fill the variable fricas-symbol-list. And there should be a key binding
> which calls this function to update this list.

Maybe that's a good idea.  Only, I'm afraid that this would make startup a fair
bit longer, wouldn't it?  The startup is already hairy: sometimes I do M-x
fricas, and the )lisp (setf ... is never executed.  I have no idea why.

> Unfortunately, you cannot hire me. The file changed from pamphlet format to
> normal .el format. Since LISP is not a language that I know very well, I
> would have to invest too much guessing to change anything.

Actually, I think that the documentation is much better now than in the version
before.  The functions have (mostly) clear semantics.  Sure, some cleaning up
may make sense.

But I think that for things without mathematical content, it doesn't make sense
to use LaTeX for markup, it's too heavy.

> The same for testing... Why don't you put some lines of documentation at the
> top of that file to explain how it should be installed/used? Where is a user
> documentation that tells me about all the features of this mode?

Please bear with me! This mode is *very* new, and it was not so easy as it
looks.  Most importantly, I really wanted to derive from comint mode, but it
wouldn't work because comint assumes that you always input just before
(point-max)...

The doc for the user interface should go into the docstring of fricas-mode, and
can be mostly copied from axiom.el.pamphlet.

The naming of the various functions should follow emacs conventions, it's
probably best to look into comint, again.

Martin


--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"FriCAS - computer algebra system" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to