On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:01 PM, tkeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure what the exact history of the notebook project for sage > is, but it seems from various posts here that at one point text- > highlighting and auto-indent were provisionally implemented but > ultimately scrapped due to the overhead introduced. I quite enjoy > using the notebook interface, but find the lack of auto-indent > frustrating when building more intricate code. I feel that auto- > indent would be an important functionality to provide in notebook, if > it does not include significant overhead. > > If auto-indent itself is a significant bogdown, I understand why this > is not available. I am a slow coder and would perhaps still prefer > this. Is it conceivable to have this as a toggle? I'm not a great > coder but would be open to helping on this. > -thomas
Autoindent was never implemented in the notebook, unfortunately. I think it could be done with no noticeable overhead, since it would *only* be triggered on carriage return. I strongly encourage somebody to implement it. Note by the way that there is one helpful thing in the notebook you might not know about. If you highlight a block of text and press "tab", then the entire block is indented. Likewise, if you press "shift-tab", then the entire block is unindented. -- 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
