On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Maurizio <maurizio.gran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everybody > > On Apr 13, 6:57 pm, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So there are these buttons at the top of my worksheets saying "Save", >> "Save & quit", "Discard & quit". What do they do? Do we need them? >> Random comments: >> >> It seems to me that right now, "Save & quit" and "Discard & quit" do >> the same thing: return to the list of active worksheets. For example, >> I just opened a worksheet, made a tiny little change and hit "Discard >> & quit". When I reopened the worksheet, the change was visible -- it >> hadn't been discarded. So is there any actual difference between the >> two? Should there be? If not, they should be consolidated into one >> button: "Quit worksheet" or "Close worksheet". >> > > I'd like to add my opinion. I think that the actual behavior is the > most safe for my needs. It often happens to me that the notebook hangs > on some complex calculation (sometimes it's just my fault!), and > "interrupt" doesn't necessarily get me back the control of the > notebook. Sometimes I can switch back to the home page and then get > the notebook at the very same point where I was before the problem.
Even if interrupt doesn't work, clicking on "Action --> restart worksheet" will always work no matter what. You should never have to completely exit the worksheet and come back. > > So my point is that, in my opinion, getting the worksheet > automatically saved each time a cell is modified or added, is a good > thing (for me at least), and I'd like to keep this as an option, at > least, if you decide to change the standard behavior. So, would be > possible to keep a backup of the worksheet (when we open it), and then > start working on the original worksheet, and then restore the original > copy, if and only if the user decide to "discard" the changes? I know > this is not really the standard way software are designed, but this > seems to make sense to me. > > Regards > > Maurizio > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
