Bugzilla Bug 101186

When setting imaxima-use-maxima-mode-flag to t with
(setq imaxima-use-maxima-mode-flag t)
and start imaxima session in GNU/Emacs with
M-x imaxima
It oops with
save-current-buffer: Wrong number of arguments: (lambda (string) "Send
a string to the Maxima process." (setq string (maxima-strip-string
string)) (maxima-start) (save-current-buffer (set-buffer
(process-buffer inferior-maxima-process)) (goto-char (point-max))
(insert string) (inferior-maxima-comint-send-input) (goto-char
(point-max)))), 2

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set imaxima-use-maxima-mode-flag to non-nil in GNU/Emacs.
2. Start imaxima in the same GNU/Emacs
3. 

Actual Results:  
Imaxima session doesn't start but an error message prints out saying
save-current-buffer: Wrong number of arguments: (lambda (string) "Send
a string to the Maxima process." (setq string (maxima-strip-string
string)) (maxima-start) (save-current-buffer (set-buffer
(process-buffer inferior-maxima-process)) (goto-char (point-max))
(insert string) (inferior-maxima-comint-send-input) (goto-char
(point-max)))), 2

Expected Results:  
Start Imaxima session in GNU/Emacs.

Long ago in Sep, 2004, I asked the author of Imaxima, Jesper Harder
<harder@ifa.au.dk>, about this bug and he gave me a patch which did solve the
problem.  But I haven't see any upgrade in imaxima, and it seems he no longer
maitains this elisp package.  I think Gentoo had better include this patch for
users.  Following is the patch.

diff -c /home/harder/imaxima-0.9/imaxima.el
/home/harder/projekter/imaxima/imaxima.el
*** /home/harder/imaxima-0.9/imaxima.el Sun Aug 15 17:19:39 2004
--- /home/harder/projekter/imaxima/imaxima.el   Tue Sep 21 23:46:32 2004
***************
*** 937,943 ****
        (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'imaxima-clean-up t t)
        (imaxima-setup-preoutput-filter)
        (maxima-single-string
!        (format "block(load(\"%s\"), linenum:0)$\n" imaxima-lisp-file) t)
        (goto-char (point-max)))))
  
  (defun imaxima ()
--- 937,943 ----
        (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'imaxima-clean-up t t)
        (imaxima-setup-preoutput-filter)
        (maxima-single-string
!        (format "block(load(\"%s\"), linenum:0)$\n" imaxima-lisp-file))
        (goto-char (point-max)))))
  
  (defun imaxima ()

Created an attachment (id=81519) [details]
New imaxima ebuild

I found another bug in imaxima-0.9 this morning (while trying out the new
maxima-5.9.2 from the gentooscience.org overlay). It was a missing progn in
part of the imaxima.lisp file and it's been fixed in imaxima-0.93.

imaxima does have a new maintainer now, Y. Honda, and it may well be that this
bug has also been fixed. I've attached an ebuild for it with the new homepage
and src URI, if you'd like to try it.

Created an attachment (id=84216) [details]
imaxima-0.94.ebuild

New imaxima ebuild for version bump
- update src_uri
- added some examples doc
- cleaned a bit the ebuild

I took the last ebuild and added the possibility to use breqn in texlive and
renamed it to use 0.94b. It works x86.

Created an attachment (id=88798) [details]
imaxima-0.94b.ebuild

The patch given in the original bug report seems to have been applied to the
imaxima.el in imaxima-0.94b but when I tried it out it didn't work because of a
dollar sign instead of a semicolon. IOW, I think the patch should have been:

diff -c /home/harder/imaxima-0.9/imaxima.el
/home/harder/projekter/imaxima/imaxima.el
--- /home/harder/imaxima-0.9/imaxima.el Sun Aug 15 17:19:39 2004
+++ /home/harder/projekter/imaxima/imaxima.el   Tue Sep 21 23:46:32 2004
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@
       (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'imaxima-clean-up t t)
       (imaxima-setup-preoutput-filter)
       (maxima-single-string
-       (format "block(load(\"%s\"), linenum:0)$\n" imaxima-lisp-file) t)
+       (format "block(load(\"%s\"), linenum:0);\n" imaxima-lisp-file))
       (goto-char (point-max)))))

 (defun imaxima ()

which works for me.

I commited an imaxima-0.94b full ebuild in the gentoo scientific overlay at
http://gentooscience.org. Please test it and report here.

(In reply to comment #6)
> I commited an imaxima-0.94b full ebuild in the gentoo scientific overlay at
> http://gentooscience.org. Please test it and report here.
> 

Works great. Thanks. :)

(In reply to comment #6)
> I commited an imaxima-0.94b full ebuild in the gentoo scientific overlay at
> http://gentooscience.org. Please test it and report here.
> 

Works. Thx

Could someone from the science team take the ebuild described in the overlay
and commit it to portage?

Ebuild was commited today