Section 1.2 The Maple Window

1.2 The Maple Window

Maple commands are typed into the Maple window; as into any terminal window. These commands are sent to Maple when you press the Return key. You can also type a group of commands separated by the Line Feed key. You then execute the commands by selecting them with the mouse and pressing the Return key.

One impressive feature of Maple Vr5 is the color scheme :

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• Red : Maple commands/functions entered by user
• Blue : Maple output in response to Maple inputs
• Black : Comments entered by user.

Whenever you press the Return key, the current line (the line containing the text cursor) is sent to Maple. If some text is selected, the entire selected text is sent to Maple for execution.

Because the Maple window is an X text window, text can be copied from other windows (for example, an xterm or Maple help window) and pasted into the Maple session. You cannot however copy and paste output from the Maple window into other text windows. If you want to put a copy of the output, you will need to export the session to a text file first.

Maple helps to prevent clutter in its window by drawing a horizontal line after each Maple output expression so that input and output expression pairs are grouped visually and separated from other pairs. Also, upon executing a command after editing a previously input command, the subsequent output replaces the previous output.