On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Bob Wonderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I run Sage on my Mac rather than on the web. I often bring up the
> previous command and edit it then rerun it. The editor is very tedious
> in that the only way I have figured out how to move the cursor around in
> the text is one character at a time using the left and right arrow keys
> and the back-space-delete key. Given a several-line for-loop to edit
> this can be frustrating.
Are you using the command line? I can't tell. I.e., do you see
sage:
and type in commands?
> Am I missing something obvious to everyone else? Is this a feature of
> the Mac rather than Sage?
>
> A less-than-satisfactory work-around is to copy/paste to a programmer's
> editor, do the change, then copy/paste back to Sage.
>
> Which leads me to another and related question. Are the editing
> capabilities of Sage when used with cells (as described in some of the
> Sage ref's) on a web server significantly better? If so would I be well
> advised to install web server software on my Mac and use Sage that way?
> (I don't have 24x7 fast web access...)
This will allow you to use the notebook, which I think is significantly
easier to use for me than the command line.
> Is that installation process complicated?
It's easy. Just type
sage: notebook()
and you're up in running in seconds.
> PS So far you support people have done just fine answering this old
> programmer but Sage newbie's questions. Thanks.
Regarding your "long" question in the other thread, you might
try typing
SR(s)
to explicitly coerce s from a long to a "symbolic ring element".
William
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