Re: [Axiom-developer] Two hyperdoc questions

[Martin Rubey]

"Alasdair McAndrew" <address@hidden> writes:

> 1) What is the current state of using HyperDoc (or any other sort of help
> browser) under windows - in particular with Axiom-0.1.4?

* Out of the box there is nothing.

* There is an experimental port by Tim Daly, with the important drawback that
  there is no connection to Axiom, i.e., browse does *not* work

* There is the possibility of running axiom within a virtual machine, as
  proposed by Bill Page and Alfredo Portes.  I'd recommend that one.  This is
  also the only way to get graphics on windows.  Furthermore, if you are
  interested in combinatorics, Polymake and therefore my Polymake-wrapper only
  works on linux, too.  Together with axiom.el and SPADEDIT for gnu emacs this
  makes quite a usable environment even for windows users.  (After clicking on
  gnu emacs, they just need to press "Alt" then "x", type "axiom" and
  everything should work.

* There is the possibly half working hyperdoc replacement by myself, which
  needs an axiom process dedicated for documentation -- but which you can run
  in the background, so you won't even notice.  So far it only can browse
  operations, and it's not really tested on windows.  Even if it is not that
  much interesting for production work at the moment, I'd urge you to try it
  and send me your experiences.

> 2) If I inadvertently quit HyperDoc while running Axiom, I can restart it
> with )hd.  But )hd doesn't provide a socket connection; this new HyperDoc is
> "not connected to Axiom".  Is there any way of starting a "connected"
> HyperDoc from an already-running Axiom?

No, but I'd love to see a fix for that bug, too.

All the best,

Martin