On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Bob Wonderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I run Sage on my Mac rather than on the web. I often bring up the > previous command and edit it then rerun it. The editor is very tedious > in that the only way I have figured out how to move the cursor around in > the text is one character at a time using the left and right arrow keys > and the back-space-delete key. Given a several-line for-loop to edit > this can be frustrating.
Are you using the command line? I can't tell. I.e., do you see sage: and type in commands? > Am I missing something obvious to everyone else? Is this a feature of > the Mac rather than Sage? > > A less-than-satisfactory work-around is to copy/paste to a programmer's > editor, do the change, then copy/paste back to Sage. > > Which leads me to another and related question. Are the editing > capabilities of Sage when used with cells (as described in some of the > Sage ref's) on a web server significantly better? If so would I be well > advised to install web server software on my Mac and use Sage that way? > (I don't have 24x7 fast web access...) This will allow you to use the notebook, which I think is significantly easier to use for me than the command line. > Is that installation process complicated? It's easy. Just type sage: notebook() and you're up in running in seconds. > PS So far you support people have done just fine answering this old > programmer but Sage newbie's questions. Thanks. Regarding your "long" question in the other thread, you might try typing SR(s) to explicitly coerce s from a long to a "symbolic ring element". 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---