I think I sent this from the wrong email address last time, since I don't see it on google groups. If you already got this I apologize.
In the past there was discussion about "automatic uploading" of sws files and such on local servers so that double clicking an sws file would do the right thing. See for example here: http://www.mail-archive.com/sage-devel@googlegroups.com/msg19059.html which for some reason has all the messages in one thread while google groups does not: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/d43d50551fd22a28 http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/7af5aa59b0e4b2ee http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/5d1759cadc7303a9 ... Bizarre. But back to the topic at hand. I would like to get ideas as to what types of files should be handled and how. e.g. I know that pdf files can be used by sage, but having never worked with them I don't know what opening a pdf file with sage should do (if it even makes sense–e.g. can sage convert it to a worksheet and open it). I do know that an .sws file should be "automatically uploaded" to the running notebook server (or start one if there isn't one running) and opened in a browser. Should a .sage file be run in the terminal or somehow open up in the browser? Should Sage.app accept .tex, .gap, etc. files? I personally think that the most important (and difficult?) files to handle are .sws files, and I would like to implement this feature. I think I may have some time to do so in the next few weeks, but I need to create the moral equivalent of sage -upload /path/to/file.sws Perhaps sage should know what to do with files instead of assuming that it's a sage/python file so that something like: sage /path/to/file.sws would upload it without having to specify -upload. Also sage /path/to/file.gap would know to start gap etc. Do you think this would this be a feature or a misfeature? Wow, sorry for the long rambling email. -Ivan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
