> >> 1. Navigate your history to A >> 2. Type C-o (or whatever) and it will >> a. execute A >> b. take you to B automatically. >> >> Is this what you wanted? >> > > More or less. > Specifically, I want the same behaviour as in GAP. In GAP one can go to A > using (say) arrows keys. Then, after executing A, you get GAP prompt, just > as if you execute the "normal" command. But if you then hit arrow-down > (i.e. "next command" in history) you'll get to B. > > In Sage executing A brings you to the bottom of the history (which I > weird, IMHO). > > > So execute normally but remember where you were in the history if you > press down. I've always found that a bit weird since if you press up you > _lose_ your place. But I grew up in a bash shell before a GAP shell. :-) > I'm sure such a thing would be easy by adding another function on top of > this patch. > > FWIW, I think this should go in soon and have another patch to get the GAP > behavior, since this has been languishing for quite a while. There should > also be a section that basically says, do XYZ to get GAP behavior and WXY > to get Magma behavior, etc. > >
Can we make sure that XYZ and WXY would remain *optional*, though? If the default behavior all of a sudden became one of these, that would be a pretty big interface change. Though I, too, often have to count how many back to up-arrow to get the list of previous commands in the right order... -- -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
