I've been meaning to make a service for OS X which does this sort of thing. Of course it's OS X only, but it would be system wide instead of just in a browser.
-Ivan On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:25 PM, RegB wrote: > Yes, in a browser, most likely Firefox. > "Unprepared document" could be anything anywhere, including > a displayed .pdf file (within a browser tab). > The file that it is in shouldn't matter, it is just highlighted text > and I think once it is highlighted it is in the (OS's) clipboard. > I am not sure if it would be a browser plug-in or whatever it is > that tools attach to to use the clipboard (in M/S Windows) contents. > > On Dec 19, 12:38 am, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: >> On Dec 18, 7:04 am, RegB <2regburg...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >>> I keep getting distracted with the code though (-: >> >> Me too. ;-) >> >>> Here is a thought - probably not new to you; >>> How practical would it be to adapt the tools you have assembled to >>> enable a user to do the following. >>> 1) Drag mouse over an expression to highlight it, I am thinking about >>> text in an unprepared document. >>> 2) Right click to open a drop down menu that offers "edit in SAGE >>> notebook cell" (approx). >>> 3) (User edits to SAGE syntax, etc.) >>> 4) Hit shift/enter, or click on evaluate. >>> 5) All the usual things happen from the notebook server. >> >> I guess it depends on where you would be reading an "unprepared >> document," and therefore where the drop-down menu would come from. >> Sounds like you mean from a browser? There's been some discussion of >> making it possible to run interacts independent of the notebook. If >> we had this capability, it'd be easy I would think to have a very >> simple, general interact that behaved like a toolbar (Sage code in, >> output back out), but it sounds like you want something better than >> that. >> >> Jason's suggestion of using TeXmacs is a good one. Offray Vladimir >> Luna Cardenas was using the combination of Sage and TeXmacs heavily >> with his students, but I can't recall if something like this was >> possible. Maybe searching through his posts or website might yield >> some ideas. >> >> Rob > > -- > 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 -- 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
