[Axiom-developer] Re: emacs mode

[Jay Belanger]

Martin Rubey <address@hidden> writes:
...
> Cliff, Jay: is the axiom-wait-for-output function and that sort of
> communication really needed?  I guess the only functionality it provides is
> that input is not accepted during calculations, is that right?

It's useful for getting output in case, say, you want to send input
from a different buffer and copy the output to that buffer.

> I will, when I work on that, try to implement the following:

You should also eventually give the functions and variables a common
prefix.

> + make colored output persistent, i.e., when you copy it into another buffer,
>   it should keep it's color.  At least in gnu emacs that should be doable.

For this, you should use text properties instead of overlays.  (In Gnu
Emacs, that is.)

Jay