(xmaxima.info)Session control

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Enter node , (file) or (file)node

4 Session control
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The 'File' menu has sections to manage the work session in Xmaxima.  The
'Batch file' and 'Batch file silently' sections are equivalent to
Maxima's commands 'batch' and 'batchload', which can also be used in
Xmaxima.  The advantage of those two options is that they will open a
dialog box that will allow you to navigate through your directories,
until you find the one that you are looking for.

   The 'Restore Maxima State' ('Alt-i') section allows you to reload the
state of a Maxima session that you saved using the 'Save Maxima State to
File' section.  The latter saves the state as a Lisp file using Maxima's
'save' command.

   The 'Save Maxima Input to File' ('Ctrl-a') section saves each input
line as Maxima code using the Maxima 'stringout' command.  This code can
be manually edited in a text editor and loaded into Xmaxima using 'Batch
file'.

   In the menu 'Edit' there is also an option 'Save console to file'
which will save the complete contents of the text window into a file.
The input and output will be saved as they look on the screen, and not
as they were originally written.

   The option 'Input prompt' ('Alt-s') will repeat the last input label
sent back by Maxima.  That will be useful if you are working on a text
that is not near the last input label and you want to move quickly to
the last input.

   Option 'Interrupt' ('Alt-g') can be used to interrupt a calculation.
And the option 'Restart' will end the current execution of Maxima; a new
Maxima process will be invoked, so the input prompt will start again as
'(%i1)'.