On 10/30/2015 02:49 PM, Thomas Baruchel wrote: > I have been using Fricas for about ten days and I really like it.
Good to hear that. May I asked you how you've found FriCAS in the first place? > I have been using rlwrap with many programs for years; actually wrapping > any program with rlwrap usually is the first thing I do when installing any > kind of interpreter. You seem to use it from a script, aren't you (I didn't > look at your attached file but I assume it is a shell-script wrapper); I > usually do the same with a bash alias in my ~/.bashrc, but of course result > will be the same. Maybe next to efricas, we should add a start script to fricas that automatically uses rlwrap, if it is installed (including command line completion). Wouldn't that be an option to get rid of CLEF? > Two years ago, I wrote a plugin for the Vim editor for interacting with > some interpreters from a Vim buffer. I didn't try to use it with Fricas > yet, but maybe someone will be interested in > it: https://github.com/baruchel/vim-notebook I've added a link to your vim-notebook. http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/FriCASInVim > There are however two things I don't like with Fricas: Yes. I like that you tell us things that are not so nice. I call this "contribution". Thank you. > * I couldn't find any way to use the help system (called Hyperdoc if I am > not wrong) from within the console; obviously Hyperdoc is a graphical > system (which I probably didn't compile; anyway I don't want to have an > external window). It's a bit hard, if you want to stay at the command line. Anyway, one thing, I can offer is http://fricas.github.io/ and in particular http://fricas.github.io/api/. (Note that the search for FriCAS identifiers only works on the API page.) If you really want to stay on the command line, then you should type )help Then we have (10) -> )what commands --------------- System Commands for User Level: development --------------- abbreviations boot cd clear close compiler copyright credits display edit fin frame help history lisp library load ltrace nopiles piles pquit quit read set show spool summary synonym system trace undo what >> System error: The index 3 is too large. (Oooops... there's a bug!) :-( If you want to learn about a domain or category, say something like (10) -> )show SemiGroup SemiGroup is a category constructor Abbreviation for SemiGroup is SGROUP This constructor is exposed in this frame. ------------------------------- Operations -------------------------------- ?*? : (%,%) -> % ?=? : (%,%) -> Boolean ?^? : (%,PositiveInteger) -> % coerce : % -> OutputForm hash : % -> SingleInteger latex : % -> String ?~=? : (%,%) -> Boolean hashUpdate! : (HashState,%) -> HashState If you want to learn about an operation, then (10) -> )display operation char There are 2 exposed functions called char : [1] String -> Character from Character [2] Integer -> Character from Character This text based help system is not perfect, and I would even say not really actively maintained, but it's still there and usable. Hope that helps. Ralf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
