On 29 Ago, 19:21, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Maurizio <maurizio.gran...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > I have a question. > > Would you please consider adding a feature in the notebook, if you > > happen to work on this? > > > My desire would be to have the chance to choose a slightly different > > type of worksheet: a "single cell"-like mode, that I intend this way: > > - one single cell to insert code, possibly with code completion, code > > coloring, and indentation management (I'm wondering whether having a > > single cell could make adding more features easier, in the way that it > > doesn't make everything too slow); > > - one single output cell, possibly in a console-like mode (so that > > it's also possible to try single line of code immediately); > > Might this look a bit like this: > > http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/calc/ > > but with tab completion, etc. >
Not bad... :) > > > > - the fastest possible way to switch from one to the other: if you > > want to do this now, you have to move back and forth in the page, and > > it's very easy to lose the point you were looking at; there are > > hundreds of ways to do this. > > > Better than hundreds of words, please ask somebody experienced with > > MatLab to show you the so many ways it's possible to dispose the > > editor and the command line while working. I have often found useful > > to switch from one to another while doing different tasks. > > Or, do you want something like Matlab has, which as far as I can tell is > just a very old fashioned command line with a very intense history? > > > What I mean is that the chance to access at the same time an history powered command line, and a powerful editor (with code completion, tabs, colors, etc.., which looks pretty standard - to not say minimal - in these modern times) looks pretty comfortable to me, but I'll be happy to listen to other comments. I've already heard talking about BeSpin ( https://bespin.mozilla.com/ ) in this list, right? Can't we have something similar? :) Thanks and regards Maurizio > > > > I know it's not said that you find this useful, but if that doesn't > > require too much work (as I hope), I think this could help a lot > > people coming from MatLab. > > > Thanks > > > Maurizio > > > On 28 Ago, 00:38, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Minh Nguyen<nguyenmi...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > The Sage notebook is about to get an overhaul in the next few months. > > > > Some areas that might need changes are the user interface, the API, > > > > scalability, and performance. If there is any plan to do some cosmetic > > > > facelift to the user interface, one might find the following blog post > > > > helpful: > > > > > Keith Lang "Top 10 UX Myths" > > > >http://carsonified.com/blog/design/top-10-ux-myths/ > > > > I don't _plan_ to do any UI redesign, but I would be happy to consider > > > doing UI reimplementation if somebody could precisely specify what > > > changes need to be made. I iplemented the current notebook UI but I > > > did not design -- I literally just copied the Google Docs UI from 2 > > > years ago. Note that Google Docs now looks different from the > > > notebook because they went through a redesign. > > > > William > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
