On Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:48:39 UTC-4, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:41:06 PM UTC-7, Szabolcs Horvát wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm new to Sage and I am still struggling with finding what I need in the >> documentation. I'm writing because maybe I'm not approaching this the >> right way, and I'm looking for advice. I am using the notebook interface. >> >> I can evaluate "something?" in the notebook to get some help, but this is >> usually very brief and more useful as a reminder than learning something >> new. >> > The documentation you get this way is the full documentation for > "something". How much is there depends on how well documented that > particular function or method is. You can evaluate > "browse_sage_doc(something)" and it will open up the same page, but in a > different window. >
Thank you for the response John. This gives the same as "something?", right? Is there anything that would take me directly to: http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/structure/sage/sets/primes.html if I search for "Primes"? That page has a better overview as it also has documentation for the methods right there on the same page. > > Is there a way to go directly to the documentation page of a certain >> function, from within the notebook? Coming from Mathematica I was used to >> just pressing F1 over any functions to get the documentation page (the >> short usage messages also have links to detailed documentation in >> Mathematica). >> >> Is there a way to search the documentation? Clicking "help" in the >> notebook brings it up but there's no search box! What would I go if I >> wanted to find help, say, on Primes() ? Is there anything better than >> going to the reference manual, opening the full index, then trying to >> search in the page until the right result comes up? (This takes many clicks >> and a lot of tedious searching.) >> > This certainly could be better. After you click "help", the best thing I > could find was to click "Fast static versions of the documentation". Then > click "Reference Manual". Now there will be a search box which will return > helpful results. > Thank you, this works. In the meantime I figured out that the online documentation also has a search box. Why is that if I click help, then "reference manual" on the top, then the search box will be missing? Otherwise the page looks the same. > From within Sage, you can also evaluate "search_src('string')" or > "search_doc('string')" to search the source code or the documentation for > 'string'. If you do these in the notebook, they will give a list of links. > This is helpful too. Yes, I always use the notebook. Is this the typical way people use Sage? > > -- > John > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
