Re: [Texmacs-dev] Hacks with external interfaces

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:29:32PM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> I am trying to hack an interface with Maple 5.4 and
> I have two main problems:
> 
> 1) When asking for help on a command, Maple runs some home-made "more" 
> program,
>    which completely confuses the IO-mechanism. Does there exist a way to make
>    Maple think that TeXmacs is a terminal with 10000 columns and 1000000 
> lines?
> 
> 2) When the input contains a syntax error, Maple enters a home-made readline
>    mechanism with special control characters, asking you to correct
>    the previous line. Again, this confuses the IO-mechanism. Is there a way to
>    disable the use of special control characters, for instance by pretending
>    being a terminal which cannot handle them?

Problem 2 has been solved using interface(errorbreak=0), but I still did not
manage to solve the first one; even interface(screenheight=9999) does not work.

--Joris