On 2014-03-12, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-03-12, sasha <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I have read this in sage tutorial: >> >> You can use %edit (or %ed or ed) to open an editor, if you want to type in >> some complex code. Before you start Sage, make sure that the EDITOR >> environment variable is set to your favorite editor (by putting export >> EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs or export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim or something similar in >> the appropriate place, like a .profile file). >> >> I added "export EDITOR=/usr/bin/gedit" in .bashrc file and run "source >> ~/.bashrc". >> >> When i write %edit in sage I get WARNING: Could not open editor. > > it depends upon how you run Sage. If you run Sage in an environment > where your terminal cannot talk to the X11 server, then it will not > work. (E.g. it won't work on cloud.sagemath.com) > > It will only work either locally, i.e. on, say, a desktop running > Linux (and Gnome as a GUI), or when you do a ssh login to a remote > machine, enabling X11 connections...
I forgot to say that if instead you use an editor that runs in the terminal, such as vim, or emacs, or nano, that kind of issues would not pop up. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
