Bob Wonderly 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. > > Am I missing something obvious to everyone else? Is this a feature of > the Mac rather than Sage?
Sage uses GNU readline to implement the shortcuts on the command line. Some documentation about the keyboard shortcuts is here: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html > > 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...) > > Is that installation process complicated? > You don't need to install a webserver. Sage comes with one. You can try it out by just typing sage: notebook() which will start the web server that sage comes with and open up your browser to the right page. Sage also comes with a wiki and other web software besides the notebook. > Bob Wonderly > > PS So far you support people have done just fine answering this old > programmer but Sage newbie's questions. Thanks. Welcome to the community! Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
