Hi, On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Alasdair <amc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I generally use my CAS's (Maple, Maxima, Sage at the moment) in an > xterm, unless I have some application which requires graphics. But > there are one or two interface issues which would make xterm/console > mode much more pleasant to use. In no particular order: > > * Different colours (user specified) for prompt, input and output > * Output automatically "pretty-printed" and centered
Can you give some specific examples of what you would like to see? > * (This is a more general Sage issue): when a variable is defined, as > in "x=sqrt(y^2+1)" it is automatically printed to the screen, unless > the user requests otherwise (say, with a semi-colon) If this can be done, I hope it would be optional or easy to turn off -- I'm quite fond of the current behaviour. > Is there any easy way of coercing Sage to act like this? You would probably need to tweak the preparser and play with ipython, but I don't know enough about this to actually do it... Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
