[ELPA] Re: SageMath and Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Rahguzar <rahguzar@zohomail.eu> writes:

> Dear Emacs developers,
>
> I want to ask opinions about including support for SageMath in Emacs or
> GNU ELPA.
>
> SageMath is a niche software but I think the niche is a very important
> one. It is also the best computer algebra system which is also free
> software and hence important to advance free software in a field
> dominated proprietary software. (This dominance is especially sad since
> proprietary software is a very shaky foundation for scientific
> research.)
>
> The SageMath project project provides Emacs modes both for source files
> and repl. They code can be found at
> https://github.com/sagemath/sage-shell-mode
>
> It is a large code base but looking at it a year or so ago, I realized
> that most of the code was implementing functionality that is by now
> included in the python.el in Emacs. SageMath is a thin wrapper around Python
> and as a result basic support for it can be provided by setting some
> variables provided by python.el appropriately.
>
> I wrote such a wrapper around python.el which is hosted at
> https://codeberg.org/rahguzar/sage-mode
>
> There is more code there than needed because I wanted to change some
> behaviors of python.el but now I think those deviations should be
> removed. As a result I think basic functionality can be provided by
> addition of 200-300 lines in python.el (or a separate file requiring
> it). If there is an interest in providing out of box support for
> SageMath I can prepare such a patch.
>
> I have been meaning to send this email for a while but never came around
> to it. I am sending this now because I saw Eli's message about a pretest
> for Emacs 30 being imminent. It might be already too late for Emacs 30
> but if the pretest is a week or two away there might be time.
>
> If inclusion in Emacs core is not considered a good option, I will like
> to contribute support to ELPA. I would like to hear opinions of the
> people maintaining the current SageMath support and opened an issue at
> https://github.com/sagemath/sage-shell-mode/issues/80 but I haven't
> heard from them (it has only been a few days).

It certainly can be added to ELPA, but I guess it would be easier to
discuss the matter if you could provide a patch for emacs.git, if that
is not too much work.

> Thanks,
> Rahguzar
>
>

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        Philip Kaludercic on peregrine