Neuwirth Erich <erich.neuwi...@univie.ac.at> writes: > I have a suggestion for the maxima mode in org-babel. > I am using Emacs on a Mac which means that some hint work differently. > The standard distribution of Maxima for the mac does not have a command > 'maxima' anywhere on the path. > > The way to start character mode maxima from a shell is using > /Applications/Maxima.App/Contents/Resources/maxima.sh > > > Maxima itself brings an emacs mode with the standard distribution, and > in maxima mode for Emacs he maxima command can be configured by using > (setq maxima-command "/Applications/Maxima.app/Contents/Resources/maxima.sh") > in .emacs > > So it makes sense that maxima mode in org does > > (require 'maxima) > and then uses maxima-command when it defines the function > > > (defun org-babel-execute:maxima > > I hope this is a reasonable suggestion. >
This is a very reasonable suggestion. I've just added a new custom variable named `org-babel-maxima-command' to ob-maxima.el. This variable will default to the value of maxima-command if it is already defined or simply "maxima" otherwise, however it can be set in your configuration. Thanks, -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
