On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Maurizio, > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Maurizio <maurizio.gran...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > <SNIP> > >> PS: I still encourage you to improve engineering features ;) > > Just to prevent misunderstanding on my part, is it possible for you to > give an (incomplete) list of engineering features you have in mind, or > engineering features you think should be improved? > > For example, with a Sage terminal session as opposed to a notebook > session, I personally think some terminal output should be displayed > with various colours. Such colour output is a nice and easy way of > distinguishing different types of output. Say, the "sage: " prompt can > coloured using one colour, error and traceback messages can be > coloured using another colour, etc. What I have in mind is something > like what one would get with a Pari/GP terminal session. Here is such > a coloured session under Windows, in case you want a visual: > > http://mvngu.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/windows-session.png > > I recently had a meeting with a maths educator who is very interested > in using Sage for undergraduate maths and cryptography. The above > coloured output issue is one of his feature requests.
Have you tried editing $HOME/.sage/ipython/ipythonrc ? It has numerous color options, which are off by default since it is not possible to tell if the user's terminal has a white or black background, and any choice of colors looks like crap if you guess wrong about the background color. That said, with the latest verison of ipython in Sage, tracebacks at startup get colored some horrible super-light grey, so I can't read them on my machine without highlighting them. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
