Singular

Hi,
I compiled and built successfully a repository from github. Now I can run singular and esingular at command line in my home directory ~/SingularSba/bin.

BUT I failed to start the interface within a running Emacs as the manual
http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/Manual/3-1-6/sing_23.htm said,

after evaluate the following,
(setq load-path (cons "/home/pan/SingularSba/share/singular/emacs" load-path))
(autoload 'singular "singular" "Start Singular using default values." t)
(autoload 'singular-other "singular"
"Ask for arguments and start Singular." t)

whether use "singular" or "singular-other", emacs prompt a message

singular-interactive-mode: Symbol's function definition is void: make-local-hook

and create an empty "*singular*" buffer.

BTW, my singular version is 4.0.0.

It may be the case that our emacs interface (and its description in the Manual) is outdated and will only work with some (older) versions of emacs :(

For instance ESingular using GNU Emacs 22.1.1 under Mac OS X 10.6 worked fine last time i checked...
Also it is known that XEmacs will not do well :(

Which emacs version are you using?

If ESingular works for you - try running it with '--no-call' to see the used command line.

ps: i run into the same problem of "function definition is void: make-local-hook" with GNU Emacs 24.3.1 / Linux.

Thanks for reporting!

Cheers,
Oleksandr

unfortunately, mine is GNU Emacs 24.3.1 / Linux.

after
./ESingular --no-call

message is
/usr/bin/emacs24-x --no-init-file --eval '(progn (setq singular-emacs-home-directory "/home/pan/SingularSba/bin/../share/singular/emacs") (load-file "/home/pan/SingularSba/bin/../share/singular/emacs/.emacs-singular") (singular-other "/home/pan/SingularSba/bin/Singular" "/home/pan/SingularSba/bin/" (list ) "singular"))'

I tried to evaluate the above progn part in emacs, font color changed, but problem is the same: "function definition is void: make-local-hook".

BTW, after
./ESingular and select the menu item start-default

Singular can be started unormally (with white background and black font color)

message in *singular* buffer:

// ** Could not get 'InfoFile'.
// ** Either set environment variable 'SINGULAR_INFO_FILE' to 'InfoFile',
// ** or make sure that 'InfoFile' is at "/home/pan/SingularSba/bin/../share/info/singular.hlp"
// ** InfoFile:
SINGULAR / Development
A Computer Algebra System for Polynomial Computations / version 4.0.0
0<
by: W. Decker, G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H. Schoenemann \ Dec 2013
FB Mathematik der Universitaet, D-67653 Kaiserslautern \
>

Dear Oleksandr,

It seems the `make-local-hook' is obsolete and has been removed from emacs24.

Commenting the following lines do the magic:
and

I am not sure wheather this has any side-efeects!

HTH

VInay

Thank you both

vinay is right, and no side-effect.

in the old docstring


and the last parameter LOCAL of "add-hook" is set true in singular.el



Regards,

Senshan Pan