On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Rob Beezer <[email protected]> wrote: > After a few days of regular use, I still like this a lot. And I think a lot > of little things (like highlighting input for copy/paste) have improved > since the double-click-to-show-input has been disabled. > > The "code folding" triangles are great. > > Here's the "but." For a cell with %md, %html, %latex I think that you > generally do not want to see the input. You routinely want to go back and > edit it, and you can use a triangle to do that intuitively, reliably and > predictably. > > This is in contrast to a "compute" cell, such as default sage, or say > %python where maybe you want to see input and output simultaneously. The > distinction is the "text" cells have an ugly representation on input and > nice representation on output, and their content is identical. > > I warned my students about the change and *told* them to hide the input for > their explanations of their Sage exercises. I still got several worksheets > with all of these inputs open, which was a bit maddening to read through > and/or close them all. Another student went too far and hid all his Sage > code, which meant I *had* to open all those. > > Yes, you can put %hide into each such text cell. > > Suggestion: Execute a %md, %html, %latex and that automatically hides the > input. For subsequent edits, the user can hit the triangle. (Or this > behavior is configurable as an editor setting).
Wouldn't this be even more confusing as it makes the behavior way less predictable than before. At least now it is very predictable. What about us just replacing the in/out/x buttons at the top by two menu-buttons that have these options: Input: - Hide - Show - Hide text cells - Show text cells - Hide code cells - Show code cells Output: - Hide - Show - Delete (The current toggle behavior is pretty much never useful for ranges of cells, so it would just go away.) With this, you could take the student homework and do "Control+a", then "Input --> Hide text cells" at the end. William -- Best Regards, William Stein CEO, SageMath, Inc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-cloud" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-cloud/CA%2BjwZMiwu6H3QF88_aPZD7iLOk9DFqhK_7L6mu4DAyNG%3DOyNDw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
