Installing MapleV ***************** The following describes how to install MapleV into GNU Emacs. Compiling ========= Move the file `maplev.el' into your Emacs load path and byte compile it as shown below: M-x byte-compile-file maplev.el Add the following line to your `.emacs' file: (autoload 'maplev-mode "maplev" "Maple editing mode" t) To have Emacs automagically start in MapleV mode when editing Maple source, add the following to your `.emacs' file, modifying the regex `.mpl' to an extension appropriate for your usage: (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `("\\.mpl\\'" . maplev-mode) auto-mode-alist)) Customizing =========== You must customize some of MapleV's default settings to be appropriate for your installation. Most significantly, you must specify the locations of the executable files for mint and the command line version of Maple. You can specify multiple versions of mint and Maple. The easiest method is to invoke `customize' using the following commands: M-x load-library maplev M-x customize-group maplev The important options are in the subgroup `maplev-important'. After setting these options, save them to your `.emacs' file by clicking on the `Save for Future Sessions' button. `Info' documentation ==================== To create the Info documentation for MapleV convert the TeXinfo file `maplev.texi' to an Info file. You may use either the stand-alone utility `makeinfo' or, from inside Emacs, the command `makeinfo-buffer'. Move the output file `maplev' to a directory in the Info load path and then edit the `dir' file, that is, the top level node of your Emacs Info structure, to point to `maplev'. I added the following menu item to my `dir' file: * MapleV: (maplev). MapleV reference manual.