Using Macaulay2 with Org Mode

Org Mode is an Emacs major mode with many features, including authoring computational notebooks.

To add Macaulay2 support to Org Mode, first install the Emacs package ob-M2 and make sure that the cons cell (M2 . t) is an element of the list org-babel-load-languages. See the README for instructions.

Then open a file in Emacs with the .org file extension and add a source code block (optionally using C-c C-, followed by s):

#+BEGIN_SRC M2
  R = QQ[x, y, z, w]
  monomialCurveIdeal(R, {1, 2, 3})
#+END_SRC

Then type C-c C-c. This will run the code, giving you the result:

#+RESULTS:
:         2                    2
: ideal (z  - y*w, y*z - x*w, y  - x*z)

See the Org Mode manual on Working with Source Code for more.