[Maxima] Problem with arrow keys, page up/down in Xmaxima

[Jaime E. Villate]

On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 12:47 -0600, Robert Dodier wrote:

> I am working with the most recent revisions on the 5.10.0 release branch
> and in Xmaxima I get an error message when I try to use the up/down
> arrow keys or page up/down or home or end. In each case the message
> appears in a pop up window and it says something like
> "Invalid command name tk::TextUpDownLine" (or tk::TextScrollPages
> or tk::TextSetCursor).
> 
> Also, when I type stuff into Xmaxima, the text is shown in blue.

> I was expecting it to be green, then blue when I type ; or $ .
> I have Fedora 1 (Linux). Maxima is compiled with Clisp 2.38.
> Rpm says I have tk-8.3.5-93 and tcl-8.3.5-93 installed.

Hi Robert,
Thanks for discovering that bug.
The problem is that you are using a very old version of Tcl/Tk
(8.4 was released in March 2003). I've just learned that functions
names such as tk::Function in Tk 8.4 used to be tkFunction
in 8.3 and previous releases.
I've just installed Tk 8.3 and will fix that incompatibility
today.

Cheers,
Jaime