On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:53 AM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > question 2. When we want help about some commands, it asks to type '?' at >> > the end of that command. For example to know about interact command, it is >> > asked to type "interact?".. >> > when I type this and when i press enter key, it shows the entire help >> > documentation of interact and at the end of the documentation it shows >> > <END>. I don't know, how to again get back into SAGE prompt. >> >> Press q. >> > > Thanks for forwarding this, William. I've often wondered how newbies > would know this as well. Somehow I "just knew" it when I started > using Sage, but of course I mostly used the notebook at first, like > many new users. Should we hack less (or more or whatever ? uses) to > include some message?
It is pretty amazing how incredibly non-newbie-friendly less and more are. We could change ipython or the docstring so it includes a hint at the end of the message, which would make it so we don't have to hack the pager (less), so at least the user knows to hit "q". > I think it also is unclear what to do with > > > > OUTPUT: an integer or symbolic expression > > EXAMPLES: > : > > for someone who hasn't used command line much; hopefully trial-and- > error yields that Return and space are useful, but... Yep. My solution of adding something to the docstring doesn't help for this problem. Usually people do figure it out though. > > Anyone know if these would be easy changes, or would they break a lot > of IPython? > > -- > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
