#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 jhpalmieri):
I think only defining LESS if it isn't set makes the most sense. We should
also add information about this in the tutorial. I also wonder the Sage
banner should be changed or expanded: it currently says
{{{
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| Sage Version 5.0.beta1, Release Date: 2012-01-22 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
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}}}
`license()` is obviously important, but it's not something that people
will need to run very much, and it's not much help for newbies. We could
eliminate its mention in the banner, or we could say
{{{
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| Sage Version 5.0.beta1, Release Date: 2012-01-22 |
| Type 'notebook()' for the GUI and 'license()' for licensing. |
| Type 'tutorial()' for a tutorial and 'help()' for more help. |
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}}}
The message printed by `help()` could also say something about what to do
after you type something like `matrix_plot?`.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12421#comment:7>
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