maxima+xmaxima: can't type into Console

[Ned Deily]

In article <FB588327-E6BD-4107-B65B-2DE86735B7B3 at gmail.com>,
 Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> OS is Mavericks.
> 
> Will try wxMaxima.
> 
> On Nov 13, 2013, at 4:07 PM, MK-MacPorts at techno.ms wrote:
> 
> > Hi Murray,
> > 
> > On Nov 13, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> >> I installed maxima @5.30.0_0+xmaxima. By itself, the command-line maxima 
> >> works (so far) as expected.
> > good.
> > 
> >> When, instead, I start xmaxima from the command-line, I get two windows ‹ 
> >> Xmaxima: browser and Xmaxima: console. If I double-click one of the 
> >> highlighted lines in the Xmaxima: browser window, then the output appears 
> >> in the Xmaxima:browser window, and both the input and corresponding output 
> >> appear in the Xmaxima:console window as well.
> > Yes, that's intentional.
> > The browser just shows you a section from the manual, which you're advised 
> > to click through to show off some of maxima's and xmaxima's features.
> > 
> >> But I cannot type any input directly into the Xmaxima: console window. 
> >> Shouldn¹t I be able to do so? And, if not, how can one enter input of 
> >> one¹s own (instead of just evaluate what¹s in the prepared html page 
> >> showing in the Xmaxima:browser window?
> > You should be able to enter your own lines in the console.
> > If not, which Mac OS version are you using?
> > Here on my SL it works seamlessly.
> > 
> > Greets,
> > Marko
> > 
> > P.S.: Perhaps you would like to install wxMaxima and try that too.

If the problem is seen using the quartz (native) Tk on Mavericks, it's very 
likely you are running into a critical Tk problem on Mavericks.  There is a 
simple patch available that fixes the problem.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/41278

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org