[sage-devel] Re: parenthesis highlighting

2009-09-11 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: Hi Has there been any progress on this? http://www.mail-archive.com/sage-supp...@googlegroups.com/msg03975.html One of the often heard comments from lecturers is that they are wasting time on basic syntax, when

[sage-devel] Re: parenthesis highlighting

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Boothby
Working with the limited tools at my disposal (this will all go away with BeSpin, if they know what they're doing), I introduce a hotkey which finds the first open paren / brace / bracket and closes it at your current cursor location: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3646 This is

[sage-devel] Re: parenthesis highlighting

2009-09-11 Thread Jason Grout
Tom Boothby wrote: Working with the limited tools at my disposal (this will all go away with BeSpin, if they know what they're doing), I introduce a hotkey which finds the first open paren / brace / bracket and closes it at your current cursor location:

[sage-devel] Re: parenthesis highlighting

2009-09-11 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:36:00PM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: I'm just throwing it out there in the interest of brainstorming. Two more ideas: 1. a by default OFF feature, which can somewhere be set to on, to prevent the CPU/RAM problems. Probably will trip up inexperienced users who will

[sage-devel] Re: parenthesis highlighting

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Boothby
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: Tom Boothby wrote: Working with the limited tools at my disposal (this will all go away with BeSpin, if they know what they're doing), I introduce a hotkey which finds the first open paren / brace / bracket and

[sage-devel] Re: parenthesis highlighting

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Boothby
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: Hi On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:36:00PM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: I'm just throwing it out there in the interest of brainstorming. Two more ideas: 1. a by default OFF feature, which can somewhere be set to on, to

[sage-devel] Re: parenthesis highlighting

2009-09-11 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Tom Boothby tomas.boot...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: Hi On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:36:00PM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: I'm just throwing it out there in the interest of brainstorming. Two more

[sage-devel] Re: parenthesis highlighting

2009-09-11 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Tom Boothby tomas.boot...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: Hi On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:36:00PM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: I'm just throwing it out there in the interest of

[sage-devel] Re: parenthesis highlighting

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Boothby
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: William Stein wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Tom Boothby tomas.boot...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: Hi On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:36:00PM