My apologies. The remark on the arrow keys is not correct. I should have gone to try.jupyter.org before sending the email.
From that site the arrow keys on the iPad work fine! Viral or Tanmay, could this be specific to JuliaBox? Rob > On May 16, 2016, at 09:05, Rob J. Goedman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sheehan, > > Interesting link to computableapp.com <http://computableapp.com/>. > > Have you ever seen the arrow keys work on IJulia or JuliaBox? I’ve certainly > seen them work in other apps, e.g. Textastic, just not in IJulia. My guess is > that the key codes have changed. Neither do they work on the older bluetooth > keyboard. This is more a Jupyter issue than an Julia issue I would expect. > > For serious computation JuliaBox is probably not the answer, but for less > demanding situations (classroom experiments, teaching Julia, exploratory > programming) it should work reliably. I wonder if we could confirm your > Amazon maintenance assumption as in July I’ll be traveling in Europe and will > certainly try it throughout the day. Could it also be network issues? > > Rob > >> On May 11, 2016, at 17:17, Sheehan Olver <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> The arrows sometimes work for me…and sometimes not. It’s too bad the >> native IPython app didn’t survive: >> >> http://computableapp.com <http://computableapp.com/> >> >> The biggest problem I have is that JuliaBox still doesn’t seem very >> reliable. This may be since Australia is the middle of the night in the US, >> which Amazon may feel is an appropriate time to do server maintenance. >> >> I wonder if buying a personal Amazon Web Server is a better idea, especially >> for doing serious computation. >> >> Sheehan >> >> >>> On 12 May 2016, at 1:13 AM, Rob J. Goedman <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, that definitely works. >>> >>> I actually bought the iPad Pro + keyboard + pen to make JuliaBox better >>> usable on an iPad. And that certainly is the case for me, I can now try >>> Julia constructs while on the road. Just having easy access to Shift-Return >>> was key to me. >>> >>> The combination of Juliabox + uploads from iCloud (or Dropbox or Google >>> drive) also is nice. >>> >>> A minor inconvenience is that the 4 arrow keys on the Pro keyboard don’t >>> work, in those cases it’s ‘back to the pen’. >>> >>> It took me a while to discover for e.g. \lambda-Tab the Tap needs to be >>> Option-Tab. >>> >>> Rob >>> >>> >>>> On May 11, 2016, at 04:42, Sheehan Olver <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> It works! I'm using the textmate mode >>>> >>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/Julia.tmbundle >>>> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/Julia.tmbundle> >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>>> On 11 May 2016, at 9:02 PM, [email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Textastic can use TextMate definitions: >>>>> http://www.textasticapp.com/v6/manual/lessons/How_can_I_add_my_own_syntax_definitions__themes_and_templates.html >>>>> >>>>> <http://www.textasticapp.com/v6/manual/lessons/How_can_I_add_my_own_syntax_definitions__themes_and_templates.html> >>>>> >>>>> Koder, another main contender, doesn't let you add syntax highlighting >>>>> yet. >>> >> >
