On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:03 PM, davidp <dav...@reed.edu> wrote:
>
> I will be teaching abstract algebra this semester and want to
> introduce my students to Sage and GAP. I have installed
> gap_packages-4.4.10_6, but I am still having trouble with
> documentation:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Sage Version 3.2.3, Release Date: 2009-01-05 |
> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> sage: gap_console()
> GAP4, Version: 4.4.10 of 02-Oct-2007, i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> gap> ?SymmetricGroup
> Help: Showing `Reference: SymmetricGroup'
> Record: '<rec>.tempfile' must have an assigned value at
> str := OutputTextFile( $SAGE.tempfile, false );
> called from
> HELP_VIEWER_INFO.(viewer).show( data ); called from
> HELP_PRINT_MATCH( i ); called from
> HELP_SHOW_MATCHES( books, str, true ) called from
> <function>( <arguments> ) called from read-eval-loop
> Entering break read-eval-print loop ...
> you can 'quit;' to quit to outer loop, or
> you can 'return;' after assigning a value to continue
> brk>
>
>
> I am running Sage on a thinkpad with Fedora 10.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The above happens because the default GAP workspace evidently that
messes up the help system. I think this is a bug (?), probably in
GAP.
You can do the following instead:
sage: gap_console(False)
which will give you a gap session that by default has less
functionality loaded than otherwise.
...
Or
sage: gap.SymmetricGroup? # <--- i like this
I've made this bug trac #5043:
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5043
I've also cc'd Steve Linton in case he has any remarks.
-- William
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