On Dec 23, 2007 12:07 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 22, 2007 7:31 PM, pgdoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 18, 12:51pm, pgdoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Changes to my Sage notebooks are not always getting saved. I'm > > > running Sage 2.9 from Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Mac OS 10.4.11 on a PowerMac > > > G5. > > > > I've tried this now on with Safari instead of Firefox, and on a Linux > > box instead of the Mac. And it appears to me that in every case, > > changes to any cell that doesn't get evaluated just get discarded when > > you `Save & close'. Now, I would think that this could be fixed, > > because after all the notebook knows how to `Evaluate All', which must > > require it to inform itself about all edits that have been done to > > cells in the worksheet. But, if for some reason this can't be fixed, > > then I think users ought to be warned, because I don't think it will > > be clear (it certainly wasn't to me) that unless you are careful to > > evaluate any cell you change or any new cell you enter, you'll lose > > your work. > > The current behavior is not a bug and is exactly the way we designed > it to work. That said, I *do* want to change the implementation > so that any time a cell is changed and the cursor leaves the cell > or "save & close" is clicked, the changed version is sent back to the > server. I think Tom Boothby has argued against this, > which is why it hasn't happened already. >
OK, this is now trac #1590: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1590 William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
