On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:24 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Andrey Novoseltsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How about syntax highlighting in code cells? > > We already implemented that two different ways. Both ways were too > slow and/or inconsistent, so we disabled/removed the functionality. When > it comes to the notebook (which is in javascript), that it feels snappy > and works robustly is more important than it having too many features. > We have also experimented with much more sophisticated "code editor" > modes in the input worksheet cells -- but again snappiness and robustness > are too much impacted. > > > > Also, I think that default line truncation can be improved: sometimes > > even if a line fits my screen without horizontal scrolling it gets > > truncated and I need to click on the output (twice) to make it look > > better. Is it possible to determine the width of the screen and > > truncate only lines that are longer? Or, perhaps, non-truncating mode > > will work better as the default? > > Input or output? > > For about 2/3 the things I personally want to output word wrap is better, and > for the other half, word wrap is worse. >
The above sentence is mathematically inconsistent because I had "half" at the beginning of the sentence, changed it to 2/3, but didn't change the other half to 1/3. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
