On Feb 21, 12:51 am, Simon King <k...@mathematik.uni-jena.de> wrote:
> Hi!
What happened to the original post?
> On 21 Feb., 03:24, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:04:20AM -0800, hpon wrote:
> > > I need some help getting started.
> > > I'm running Sage in the terminal on a Linux system. How do I use a
> > > proper editor; so that can save and edit my work?
>
> > Type %edit to use your editor.
>
> Perhaps one may add two or three things, although this concerns
> features that I never used:
> * Probably you would like to customize %edit (typing %editor?, one
> can learn how). At least on my machine, the default editor is vi. I am
> not going to start a flame war, but I acknowledge that there exist
> people who prefer a different editor.
This is obviously blasphemy and Simon needs to see a doctor - vim
forever :)
> * Isn't there a sage-mode for emacs? Perhaps someone could comment on
> how to start it. If I write Sage programs, I am normally using the
> python-mode for emacs.
Check out http://wiki.sagemath.org/sage-mode
> * Perhaps a convenient and easy solution would be to use the
> notebook. After all, you can edit both input and text cells, and you
> can save it. But I don't know if one can save things as raw text.
Yes, the notebook is very convenient this way. I would prefer it over
a local editor all day.
> Cheers
> Simon
Cheers,
Michael
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