[sage-devel] Re: edit_module patch updated

2007-10-24 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 24, 6:50 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/24/07, Nils Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I understand that the "bg=" hack is a quick way of getting the > > configurability you want, but frankly, I would find it hard to explain > > the existence of that option ind

[sage-devel] Re: edit_module patch updated

2007-10-24 Thread Nils Bruin
OK. Sounds like SAGE will *NOT* be able to read your mind, then. "bg" option added back in (can both be used to strip "&" from and to add in "&" to the default). Ticket reopened. Thank you for explaining why you need the "bg" option and why the obvious workarounds don't work in your case. The "p

[sage-devel] Re: edit_module patch updated

2007-10-24 Thread William Stein
On 10/24/07, Nils Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that the "bg=" hack is a quick way of getting the > configurability you want, but frankly, I would find it hard to explain > the existence of that option independent of the very particular usage > scenario you describe. To you, sin

[sage-devel] Re: edit_module patch updated

2007-10-24 Thread Nils Bruin
OK, so this is caused by my lack of knowledge of how emacs operates. Really, we are talking about two editors here, one a tty-application and the other an X-windows application. They happen to be called by the same command invocation, so there must be something in the environment that decides whic

[sage-devel] Re: edit_module patch updated

2007-10-23 Thread William Stein
On 10/22/07, Nils Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See: > > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/768 > > I have updated the attached patch to be clean against 2.8.8.1. When I > checked the edit() command in sage 2.8.8.1, I realized it was really > broken -- It doesn't work if EDITOR is unset in