On 27 October 2015 at 20:41, Alasdair McAndrew <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> A quickie: ")read /home/amca/quicklisp/setup.lisp" works in FriCAS, but not
> in efricas.  Why not?

Hmmm, not sure.  I usually don't use efricas (emacs drives me crazy).
Maybe it is better to use something like

  )lisp (load "quicklisp/setup.lisp")

> Also, the history mechanism in FriCAS in a console seems a bit odd: sometimes
> (well, often), a previous command, obtained using the arrow keys, will have 
> extra
> characters, or chanrecters missing (I'm using Konsole: the KDE console, with 
> my
> term=xterm.)
>

I suffer with the same sort of problem: backspace and inserting
corrections usually does not work.  Axiom (and FriCAS by default) uses
an ancient program called 'clef' instead of the now much more common
'readline'. It is possible in principle to turn off clef when starting
FriCAS, e.g.

  $ fricas -noclef

but then you have no history mechanism unless SBCL itself was compiled
with the option to include readline.  I don't usually bother to try to
make this work. Maybe Waldek can say more about when and how this
works.

Cheers,
Bill.

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