[OS X Emacs] Installing imaxima in Aquamacs

[Daniel Stegmueller]

That did it.

Thanks a lot!

Daniel


On 11 Jul 2008, at 15:50, Nathaniel Cunningham wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Daniel Stegmueller <d.stegmueller at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> I put the imaxima files in the same directory as you did (breqn is  
> already installed on my system) but Aquamacs greets me with the  
> following error when i start imaxima-mode:
>
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>
>  LOAD: A file with name /Users/dstegmue/Library/Application does not  
> exist
>
> Automatically continuing.
> To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
>
> *** - THROW: there is no CATCHer for tag RETURN-FROM-DEBUGGER
> Break 1 [1]>
>
>
> Maxima itself (5.15.0 installed via Fink) is working.
>
> Any more suggestions?
>
> Sorry, I'd forgotten: there is a bug in imaxima.el which makes it  
> intolerant of spaces in the path to imaxima.lisp.  The error you got  
> is not exactly the same as the one I encountered in the past, but  
> perhaps these are different versions of imaxima.el  I corrected this  
> in imaxima.el and emailed the issue and fix to the imaxima  
> maintainter, but I'm not sure that he's implemented the patch.   
> Below is my email regarding the problem and the fix.
>
> --Nathaniel
>
> Yasuaki,
>
> I've just tried out your excellent imaxima.el with Aquamacs Emacs on  
> Mac OS X.  I did a manual install, and put the required files in the  
> standard place for elisp packages for Aquamacs: ~/Library/ 
> Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/ .  This caused an error:
>
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>
>  Error during processing of --eval option "(cl-user::run)":
>
>   error opening #P"/Users/nathaniel/Library/Application":
>     No such file or directory
>
> I dug around in imaxima.el, and found that the sole option fed to  
> the maxima command is `--preload-lisp=' with the path to  
> maxima.lisp; for some reason, when this is defined as the argument,  
> (split-string) is first applied to the path.  I changed the (split- 
> string) command to (list), and now it works fine.  Could you make  
> imaxima.el tolerant of spaces in this path by default?  Below is the  
> diff of my change.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathaniel
>
> *** /Users/nathaniel/downloads/
> aquamacs/imaxima-imath-0.99/imaxima.el    2008-01-05 10:20:26 -0600
> --- /Users/nathaniel/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/ 
> imaxima/imaxima.el    2008-04-16 23:19:15 -0500
> ***************
> *** 1074,1081 ****
>             "imaxima"
>             imaxima-maxima-program
>             nil
> !           (split-string
>              imaxima-maxima-options))))
>       (save-excursion
>         (set-buffer mbuf)
> --- 1074,1082 ----
>             "imaxima"
>             imaxima-maxima-program
>             nil
> ! ;;           (split-string
> !           (list
>              imaxima-maxima-options))))
>       (save-excursion
>         (set-buffer mbuf)
>
>
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