MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, nicer editor?

Alternative editors

Robert Israel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:53:22 Z

Most serious Maple programmers do not edit their code in a Maple worksheet.

Use your favourite editor, produce a text file, and then read it in to Maple with the read command.

Other interpreter

alec — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:49:24 Z

From my experience, Maple is good for short procedures. If one feels a need for larger procedures, it is, probably, better to use another interpreter, such as Python, for instance, which has many good editors and extensive libraries for, practically, everything. Plus much wider community wishing to help.

Alec

The external editor

jakubi — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:19:07 Z

issue occurs frequently. Eg:

Development tools

Emacs Mode

Vim mode

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition

DuncanA — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:44:54 Z

If you are a Windows user you can download Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition free from Microsoft's website and configure it to edit .mpl files and call Command-line Maple with your .mpl files as an argument.

After installing MSVC++ Express Edition, select Tools > External Tools from the menu system. In the resulting pop-up box, click the "Add" button to add a new menu item then enter the following.

Title: &Maple

Command: C:\Program Files\Maple 12\bin.win\cmaple.exe (or whatever the path is to your Command-line Maple executable)

Arguments: $(ItemFileName)$(ItemExt)

Initial directory: $(ItemDir)

Then click "Ok"

This will add a "Maple" menu item to the Tools menu. You can then edit .mpl files in the editor. After saving, select Tools > Maple from the menu system and the .mpl file will execute in Command-line Maple.

Duncan

quick question

Thomas Unger — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:52:13 Z

I'm wondering what kind of programming tasks make it necessary to use another editor. What are the 'serious Maple programmers' doing that requires more than a few dozen command lines of Maple code ?

What is your killer application ?

Thomas

Joe Riel's blog

alec — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:13:15 Z

On this site, one can see a series of examples in Joe Riel's blog. See Faster Permutations, for instance.

Alec