You should also look at the Sage tutorial (http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/tutorial/). The 2nd page of the "guided tour" talks about "?", and there may be other things that you would find useful.
On Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 5:36:18 PM UTC-7, Fan Zhang wrote: > > Thanks a lot! "?" is the saver! > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 5:42 PM Vincent Delecroix > <20100.d...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Dear Fan, > > > > I definitely agree that browsing through the reference manual is a pain. > > For general reference, I would advise to use one of the introductory > > books that are better organized > > > > - http://sagebook.gforge.inria.fr/english.html > > - > http://www.people.vcu.edu/~clarson/bard-sage-for-undergraduates-2014.pdf > > > > The reference manual is compiled from the source code. It is efficient > > if you want to know which option accept a given function. And the most > > useful way to browse it is directly in the console (with one question > > mark '?' and then enter) > > > > sage: Mod? > > Docstring: > > Return the equivalence class of n modulo m as an element of > > ZZ/mZZ. > > > > [...] > > > > Python/Sage offers some convenient introspection that allows you > > to obtain the source code (two question marks '??') > > > > sage: Mod?? > > [...] > > File: > > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/rings/finite_rings/integer_mod.pyx > > > > I copied only the last line because it mentions the file where > > this function is implemented. > > > > Vincent > > > > Le 07/04/2019 à 22:55, Fan Zhang a écrit : > > > Hi all, I'm a new user to Sage and could your help in getting my speed > up. > > > > > > Sage itself is quite user-friendly but my main challenge has been > > > navigating through the doc. I've been using the [official > > > reference](http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference) to look up > function > > > definitions etc. However I find the experience suboptimal. For > example, I > > > couldn't figure out the difference between `Mod`, `Integers`, > > > `IntegersModRing` after quite some effort. (Despite they're frequently > used > > > in the [example code > > > ]( > http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/finite_rings/sage/rings/finite_rings/integer_mod.html)). > > > > > Moreover, I can't even find where `Mod` is defined. > > > > > > More generally, what's the preferred way to browse the documentation? > The > > > search function works but it returns an awful lot from which it is > hard to > > > pick out the useful piece... > > > > > > > -- > > 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-s...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-s...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
