"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... ;-).

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.

I'll do some more testing but the various tests I have tried should
cover most aspects that I ever use.

Thanks,
eric