Will it be easy to revert back to the official library? Like will there be a sage restore option? Also maybe there could be a prompt that asks the user after they have done some editing if he would like to incorporate those changes into his sage install.
On 10/4/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/4/07, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So they are two fairly different things, with the same name. > > > > %edit also takes arguments: > > > > ... > > > > - If the argument is the name of an object (other than a string), > > IPython will try to locate the file where it was defined and open the > > editor at the point where it is defined. You can use `%edit function` > > to load an editor exactly at the point where 'function' is defined, > > edit it and have the file be executed automatically. > > > > This is precisely the behavior you're describing. > > Actually it isn't precisely the same behavior. If I do > > sage: %edit factor > > then this edits the factor function installed in > > SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/python/site-packages/sage/... > > (which will be overwritten by 'sage -br'), whereas > > sage: edit(factor) > > edits > > SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/rings/arith.py > > Moreover, we'll extend the edit command so when called in the notebook > it creates an textarea editor on the relevant file. > > -- William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
