David Philp wrote: > > On 23/09/2008, at 11:19 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > >> David Philp wrote: >>> On 23/09/2008, at 11:00 AM, Bob Wonderly 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. >>> Mmmm... at the command line, ctrl-a and ctrl-e take you to the start >>> and end of the line. In many OS X applications, ctrl-option-b jumps >>> back by a word (roughly standard readline behaviour) but as far >>> as I >>> can tell, nothing like this works in sage's command line (which is a >>> shame.) >> What is the "meta" key in OS X? For me, pressing escape (my meta key) >> and then b takes me back a word. Does option-b take you back? > > Interesting. This looks like a bug at some level. Option-b inserts > the "integral" character (∫), i.e. great S (I think that's what it's > meant to be). That's standard OS X behaviour, gets you all sorts of > fun characters and accents (π, ß, ∑, µ, ö) > > Ctrl-option-b takes me back a character, as does ctrl-b. I'm guessing > that GNU readline uses "ctrl-option" as "meta" on OS X, and that it is > not correctly configured in Sage's readline.
Or maybe it's ignoring the option and just giving you ctrl-b. I'd experiment to find the meta key if you'd just ship me a mac :). I'd even try to figure out how to configure the meta key to be whatever you wanted. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
