[Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-mail] [ANN] new version of axiom mode for emacs.

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Hi,

Unfortunately, axiom.el is not usable in XEmacs. Here is a translation 
of the offending key definition. The definitions given below are 
compatible between Emacs and XEmacs.

(define-key axiom-mode-map [(meta up)] 'axiom-previous-input)
(define-key axiom-mode-map [(meta down)] 'axiom-next-input)

(define-key axiom-mode-map [(shift up)] 'axiom-paint-previous-line)
(define-key axiom-mode-map [(shift down)] 'axiom-paint-next-line)
(define-key axiom-mode-map [(shift left)] 'axiom-paint-previous-char)
(define-key axiom-mode-map [(shift right)] 'axiom-paint-next-char)

But there is more...

When I start M-x axiom from within XEmacs, I see

(1) ->  ^M(1) ->

And if I type the famous 1+1 then my cursor jumps right on the ^ of the 
above given line and my status line says:

cannot support overlay 'modification-hooks property under XEmacs

So XEmacs users are left out with your mode. :-(

On 05/23/2007 03:35 PM, Martin Rubey wrote:
> * it would be extremely nice to have command tab-completion, as when starting
>   axiom in a shell.  (The polymake team would like to have this, for example.)
>   Anybody knows how to go about this?

A simple and stupid way is, to extract (by hand) all relevant Axiom 
identifiers and put them into axiom.el then write a routine to use this 
list. Of course that is not good if somebody changes the axiom library, 
but until then it might serve quite well.

Ralf