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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Javier Arantegui Jimenez wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Vie, Julio 21, 2006 09:17, Kasper Peeters wrote:
>  
>
> > In Mathematica there is a useful option "evaluate notebook", which
> > evaluates all cells in a notebook, one by one, without the user having
> > to press enter (or rather shift-enter) all the time.
> >    
>
> I don't think that this feature exists in TeXmacs. The closer funcionality
> is the possibility of removing the output lines that it's shown here (at
> the end):
>
> TeXmacs–maxima interface
> A.G. Grozin
> http://arxiv.org/html/cs/0504039
>
> Based on that work I don't think that it would be difficult for a
> TeXmacs/Scheme hacker (maybe Henri?) to write a macro to mimetise that
> behaviour.
>
>  
I implemented a Record/Replay mechanism inside TeXmacs
some months ago, but it remains a hack. For the feature
you discuss here, I could probably do it, but I'm
not completely sure (I need to look at that a little
bit, & I will try to think about that in a not too
much distant future).

In addition, it is planned that one of the next important
tasks to do in TeXmacs (I mean : to be done *by myself* :)
is to write the part of the documentation related to programming
in TeXmacs (I cannot tell you that it will be done this week,
but this job will very probably be started this summer). Then
we will have the reference document which is highly missing
right now for people to start their own developments.

Of course, it will not preclude the possibility to
ask for technical advice as usual, but we will then
be able to focus the discussion on a higher level,
and in the same time, without having so many gaps
between the "I want to do this" level and the "How
to implement the thing I want" level as it is currently,
where the only solution is to read the TeXmacs code
for answering questions.