On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > Dan Drake wrote: >> On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 at 01:58AM -0700, John Cremona wrote: >>> I think I do understand what Armand is asking. Let's see: >>> >>> Say I have been using Magma for half an hour. I typed lots of stuff, >>> including typos etc, and a whole lot of output has scrolled past. Now >>> I want to keep all the commands that I typed, put them in a file, >>> sanitize them, ans use them later as a kind of script. I can do that >>> in Magma like this: >>> >> [...] >>> Now I think that Armand wants an equivalent to %S. Presumably the >>> commands typed in will all be in a history file somewhere. >> >> On the command line, there's log_text, log_html, and log_dvi. They >> record (mostly) what you type into the session. >> > > I didn't know about these; these are really cool commands! > > Is there maybe any way that the log_* commands could have an option to > also include output? (maybe even typeset output for the dvi one and > jsmath output for the html one...) > > All three of the commands seemed to work for me. I had some sort of > error the first time I used log_dvi(), but it's worked every time since > then.
I wrote those commands in 2006 at Sage Days 1 after seeing the first (not so good)attempt by some people to make an IPython GUI... In a sense they are a predecessor to the notebook, especially log_html(). I haven't used them myself in a long time. Dan -- thanks for fixing bugs in them, since I know they had "issues" when I wrote them! -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
