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From: dancon@ut-emx.UUCP (Dan Connolly)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: Emacs as a front end for Mathematica?
Keywords: emacs Mathematica front end
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Date: 20 Mar 90 20:16:43 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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I use Mathematica remotely from a variety of hosts, and
I'm getting tired of the command-line-interface front end.
(I don't think there's anything wrong with it. It does it's
job just fine. I want a bigger job done.)

It strikes me that the Mathematica command-line-interface is
almost exactly the same as the Lisp read-eval-print loop.

Now emacs supports fairly sophisticated interaction with the
Lisp read-eval-print loop, and it's been interfaced to other
processes.

How about an emacs math-mode to put a nicer face on Mathematica?

I suppose running a shell inside emacs and running Mathematica
from there will provide cut and paste, but certainly one could
build some more smarts into emacs. I don't have any really good
ideas, but I'm going to start playing.

I'm completely new to e-lisp programming, so if anybody has
any suggestions -- if there are any packages out there that
could be easily made into a math-mode, I'd love to hear about
it.

Dan Connolly
dancon@emx.utexas.edu