On 17 January 2014 13:41, Simon King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On 2014-01-17, John Cremona <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Holding down
>>>> the  Backspace key?
>>>
>>> Nope, since it will only bring you to the beggining of the line, which
>>> won't help in a multiline command.
>>
>> That's funny -- in my terminal that does work.
>
> In my case (openSuse), I can go back until the cursor comes close hits the
> "....: " continuation mark. From there, I can't go back to the previous
> line (I tried several keys, such as backspace or arrow keys, and "pos1"
> also does not go back to the sage prompt.
>

OK, so I cannot do that either.  My mistake.

>> And even after the
>> next Sage prompt if I press the up-arrow then the whole multiline
>> input is there and you can go back and forth in it at will across the
>> line breaks using left and right arrows.
>
> This works for me as well. The problem only occurs when typing a new
> definition, not when I go back to an old one.
>

Agreed.  But when in the middle of the new definition you can type an
up-arrow to chenge previous lines?  I can even go back to the first
line def f(): and then (in effect) start again.

John

> Best regards,
> Simon
>
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