On Nov 2, 2012, at 09:25 , Jason Grout wrote:
> On 11/2/12 11:17 AM, Peter Horn wrote:
>> Hi. I am on Mac OS 10.8.2 with Sage 5.3 OS X 64bit 10.6 and Macaulay2
>> 1.4. I can run Macaulay2 commands from the Sage command line, but I
>> cannot run
>>
>> %macaulay2
>> 3+3
>>
>> in the notebook interface. I get the same (?) error as Fredrik:
>>
>> Traceback (click to the left of this block for traceback)
>> ...
>> RuntimeError: Unable to start macaulay2 because the command 'M2
>> --no-debug --no-readline --silent -e 'ZZ#{Standard,Core#"private
>> dictionary"#"InputPrompt"} = lineno -> "_EGAS_ :
>> ";ZZ#{Standard,Core#"private dictionary"#"InputContinuationPrompt"} =
>> lineno -> "_EGAS_ : ";printWidth = 0;lineNumber = 10^9;'' failed.
>>
>>
>> If I type the command "M2 --no-debug --no-readline --silent -e" in the
>> terminal, it doesn't work. But if I leave off the "-e" it does work.
>>
>>
>> Any idea what is causing this mess up? I really need M2 to function in the
>> Sage notebook.
>>
>
> That command comes from line 180 in devel/sage/interfaces/macaulay2.py:
> http://hg.sagemath.org/sage-main/file/d06cf4b2215d/sage/interfaces/macaulay2.py#l180
>
> I have no idea what that -e does, but if you want to try removing it, that's
> where you'd change something.
For the record, the "-e" allows the user to run Macaulay2 to evaluate an
expression that follows the "-e" on the command-line. You'd have to evaluate
that blather to figure out what the (bleep) was intended.
Justin
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