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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:01:26PM -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-10 at 14:18 +0700, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> > > PS Any thoughts on my earlier post regarding the maxima session input
> > > and output number problem?
> > This is difficult: I guess, changes of C++ code responsible for sessions 
> > are required. The latest input prompt has already been written, and 
> > TeXmacs does not remember it. Now you want TeXmacs to write it again, at 
> > the beginning of the line the user has just edited and pressed enter. 
> > From 
> > where TeXmacs can know it? I agree that this would be reasonable (by the 
> > way, then the user will see two identical input line numbers after 
> > re-executing an old line).
> 
> Thanks Andrey! With regard to your comment: "then the user will see two
> identical input line numbers after re-executing an old line". My
> thinking was that if a line is re-executed the input number would be
> changed the next unused input number so it there is a blank input line 
> (%i10) waiting for use, but the user goes back an edits something you
> would treat (%i10) as if it had been executed and give the edited line
> (%i11). If the user then types something into (%i10) it would be treated
> as an edited line and changed to (%i12). Would that be do-able?

From the TeXmacs point of view, yes. But the problem here is that
it is not TeXmacs who chooses the input numbers, but Maxima.
So how to tell all this to Maxima? If that were possible,
one might just as well keep the old number, by the way.