On 9/14/07, Jonathan Bober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is actually an unrelated issue. A user must have write permissions > > to the *current* directory to run the notebook, since it stores its state > > files in the current directory. Try instead: > > I've noticed this before, but I've never really thought too much about > it. Because of this, I've got sage_notebook directories sprinked > throughout different random places on my machine, and it's a little > annoying. (And I also think that it is a little "rude" of sage to do > this without my knowlegde.) > > Is there a good reason that sage doesn't simply use the .sage directory > that it creates under my home directory for this? If not, then I would > like to call this a bug. And even if there is a good reason, then I > still might like to call it a bug.
This is certainly not a bug because it was a conscious design decision that a lot of people agree with and really like. The idea is that you start the SAGE notebook in a directory where you have some project, and the worksheets you get are exactly the ones related to that project. For me this is by far the most natural and best way to work. E.g., if I'm writing a book on the riemann hypothesis, my src directory looks like this: rh.tex ... lots of stuff .. sage_notebook And if I think do sage -notebook I get a notebook with all worksheets related to my work on the Riemann Hypothesis book. That said, I'm certainly interested in revisiting this design decision, so if people have strong feelings pro or con, please speak up. By the way, you could always write a script like this: ----------------- #!/bin/sh cd "$HOME"/.sage sage -notebook # or sage -inotebook ------------------ and the SAGE notebook run via that script would then always use the version in .sage/. Another point to make is that the other servers included in Sage, e.g., wiki(), work the same way. I.e., they run from a local directory. --------- Another point is that I often want to run separate SAGE notebooks on the same computer, but with completely different sets of worksheets. I just do sage -notebook from one project directory and sage -notebook from another, and I'm good to go. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
