On 10/4/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The command we're discussing in Sage is different:
>
> edit(foo)
>
> for foo a function defined in the Sage library (right now, at least), finds
> the original source file that defines foo, and puts you in an editor
> to edit that file. Doing "sage -br", would then build and install the
> resulting file.
>
> 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.
%edit knows how to edit strings, sets of interactive input, macros,
functions defined in files, files specified by name, etc.
Cheers,
f
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