MapleV: An Emacs Package for Maple Developers

Version 3.0.5

MapleV is an Emacs package for developing Maple code. Maple is computer algebra system sold by Maplesoft. MapleV provides several major modes:

• maplev-mode : edit Maple source files
• maplev-mint : view the output of mint, the Maple syntax checker
• maplev-help : view Maple help pages
• maplev-view : view archived Maple modules and procedures
• maplev-cmaple : interact with a Maple engine

Requirements

• GNU Emacs 25.1+
• Maple 2016+

To interact with the Maple engine, display help pages, and view library procedures,the pmaple binary executable is required; this is a change from pre 3.0 versions of MapleV which used cmaple, a part of the Maple distribution. The pmaple binary can be compiled from source using Maple's OpenMaple package; pre-compiled executables for Linux and Windows are available at github.com/JoeRiel.

Installation

Download and unpack the latest zip file.

For convenience, the maplev-built.zip contains a pre-built Maple archive file (maplev.mla) and documentation: doc/maplev.info, doc/maplev.html, and doc/maplev.pdf. The doc files contain the same information but in different formats. The maplev.info is the most useful as it can be accessed from Emacs if properly installed. These files can be built from the source.

Instructions for installing MapleV are given in its info manual, maplev.info, of which there is an html version, maplev.html.

On a Linux machine you might be able to do

make install

If needed, assign EMACS on the command line; for example

make install EMACS=/usr/bin/emacs24

Configuration

Add the following lines to the Emacs initialization file, which is given by the value of user-init-file.

(add-to-list 'load-path (concat user-emacs-directory "maple"))
(autoload 'maplev-mode "maplev" "Maple editing mode" 'interactive)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.mpl\\'" . maplev-mode))

Use the Emacs custom group maplev-group to access MapleV's many customizations.

Usage

Fire up Emacs. If you configured auto-mode-alist, as above, opening a Maple source file with extension .mpl should cause it to be opened in maplev-mode. If the maplev.info file was installed where it can be found by Emacs, you can get help by calling maplev-got-info-node. An html version of the help, maplev.html, is distributed with the source.