Re: [Axiom-developer] Developers and Axiom (was Re: typo in src/boot/Makefile.pamphlet)

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Hello,

Unfortunately, I cannot do everything in zero time. Have you tried 
ALLPROSE. I want to integrate a variant of it (which is just the editing 
part) with Axiom, but I first have to figure out all this ARCH stuff.

So you must be a bit patient.

The basic idea is. You edit your files with two windows open. One is 
emacs and the other one is xdvi. Of course you edit your stuff in emacs 
where you would probably use mmm-mode (connected with aldor-mode, 
makefile-mode or whatever). Then you noweave and latex your stuff to 
show it in a prettyprinted form in xdvi (with many hyperlinks added). If 
you see in xdvi viewer a mistake, then (by using the inverse search 
facility of xdvi you jump immediately into the file in emacs (that works 
across file boundaries).

That's how I currently edit aldor files. And I hope I will some day be 
able to do it also for other files in Axiom.

But of course, some commands for emacs as Tim described are useful anyway.

Tim, is your way of editing somewhere on the wiki so that you simply 
could point other people to it?

We should have several such examples. I guess that would help new people 
to start working.

Ralf