#12421: make it so the prompt at the end of a docstring on the Sage command
line is
more newbie friendly
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Reporter: was | Owner: mvngu
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: documentation | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by SimonKing):
Replying to [comment:4 was]:
> SimonKing -- I think that if the user has already set LESS, then they
are by definition not a "total newbie", so we simply leave LESS alone.
That doesn't totally convince me. First of all, it wasn't I who defined
the LESS variable on my laptop - it seems it was already there when I
bought it. So, a total newbie can very well have LESS defined.
And moreover, I don't find it totally obvious that "less" is running when
Sage displays the documentation, and thus even a user who knows "less"
might wonder what to do. Of course, non-newbies know that one usually has
to type q or x to quit any application, and I would expect that people
simply try either q or x.
Hence, I still think it Sage defining a meaningful "less" prompt is a good
idea - even if LESS is defined, unless it also defines a prompt.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12421#comment:5>
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