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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
