On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:41:06 PM UTC-7, Szabolcs Horvát wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Sage and I am still struggling with finding what I need in the
> documentation. I'm writing because maybe I'm not approaching this the
> right way, and I'm looking for advice. I am using the notebook interface.
>
> I can evaluate "something?" in the notebook to get some help, but this is
> usually very brief and more useful as a reminder than learning something
> new.
>
The documentation you get this way is the full documentation for
"something". How much is there depends on how well documented that
particular function or method is. You can evaluate
"browse_sage_doc(something)" and it will open up the same page, but in a
different window.
Is there a way to go directly to the documentation page of a certain
> function, from within the notebook? Coming from Mathematica I was used to
> just pressing F1 over any functions to get the documentation page (the
> short usage messages also have links to detailed documentation in
> Mathematica).
>
> Is there a way to search the documentation? Clicking "help" in the
> notebook brings it up but there's no search box! What would I go if I
> wanted to find help, say, on Primes() ? Is there anything better than
> going to the reference manual, opening the full index, then trying to
> search in the page until the right result comes up? (This takes many clicks
> and a lot of tedious searching.)
>
This certainly could be better. After you click "help", the best thing I
could find was to click "Fast static versions of the documentation". Then
click "Reference Manual". Now there will be a search box which will return
helpful results. From within Sage, you can also evaluate
"search_src('string')" or "search_doc('string')" to search the source code
or the documentation for 'string'. If you do these in the notebook, they
will give a list of links.
--
John
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