From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Litvinov Sergey <slitvinov@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [babel] maxima support?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:27:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei681egr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3lss5h7.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:39:32 +0000")
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I see the problem, I used let instead of let*. Please try this
>>>> updated version of the patch. Sorry I would test this myself, but I
>>>> don't have Maxima installed.
>>>
>>> No problem at all! I'm happy to test this as many times as necessary.
>>>
>>> In any case, this works fine in that maxima is indeed evaluated and
>>> output is returned. However, two problems arise:
>>>
>>> 1. lines of the form "rat: replaced XXX by YYY = ZZZ" are not deleted
>>> (as used to be by the grep -v replaced hack I had in the original
>>> ob-maxima). Essentially, we need to ignore output lines that match
>>> the regex "^rat: replaced .*$" (I think this should do it...).
>>>
>>> 2. The output is converted to an org table:
>>>
>>
>> The attached should fix both of these problems. Please let me know how
>> this works.
>
> Eric,
>
> Well, it didn't work :(.
>
> However, I think I managed to fix it. I think you have an ulterior
> motive: to make me learn elisp properly once and for all... ;-).
>
sure... that must be the reason I've put all these bugs in the code
/looking around suspiciously/
>
> Attached is the updated ob-maxima.el file with two changes:
>
> 1. quoted =identity= in the =mapconcat= sexp.
> 2. asked =split-string= to split on newlines so that (a) the regex for
> the rat line would match *and* (b) so that the output is faithful to
> what maxima generates.
>
> I hope these make sense! I've gone through the code and I think I
> understand it. More importantly, the output is now essentially the same
> as I was getting before which makes me quite happy.
>
Great, these changes look good, I've just push this up to the org-mode
repository.
Thanks for contributing support for a new language! -- Eric
>
> I'll do some more testing but the various tests I have tried should
> cover most aspects that I ever use.
>
> Thanks,
> eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-15 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 9:32 [babel] maxima support? Litvinov Sergey
2011-02-24 10:25 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-24 10:28 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-25 9:17 ` Litvinov Sergey
2011-02-25 23:58 ` Eric Schulte
2011-02-28 16:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-14 21:26 ` Eric Schulte
2011-03-15 10:47 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-15 13:17 ` Eric Schulte
2011-03-15 14:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-15 15:32 ` Eric Schulte
2011-03-15 16:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-15 17:27 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2011-03-15 18:32 ` Eric S Fraga
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