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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:47:14 -0400
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To: Neuwirth Erich <erich.neuwirth@univie.ac.at>
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Neuwirth Erich <erich.neuwirth@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/