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Inconsistent file extensions for documentation #5

Closed d-torrance closed 3 years ago

d-torrance commented 3 years ago

The two documentation files generated by make-M2-emacs-help.m2 have different file extensions:

Both are plain text files, so .txt seems more appropriate, especially as .m2 files usually contain Macaulay2 source.

mahrud commented 3 years ago

It's intended to demonstrate M2-mode:

In this section we learn how to use emacs to edit Macaulay2 code. Assuming you have set up your emacs init file as described in "setting up the Macaulay2 emacs interface" when you visit a file whose name ends with .m2 you will see on the mode line the name Macaulay2 in parentheses, indicating that the file is being edited in Macaulay2 mode.

To see how electric parentheses, electric semicolons, and indentation work, move to a blank line of this file and type the following text.

f = () -> (
a := 4;
b := {6,7};
a+b)
d-torrance commented 3 years ago

Ah, that makes perfect sense!

Closing.