On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 9:20:00 AM UTC-7, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > I feel the same way about functions like search_src() that badly > reimplement grep (even if they still work). >
I'm definitely in favour of keeping search_src and search_def. I find it *super* convenient to not have to think how to formulate the right grep query nor what the target of my grep should be. Grep is great, but writing regexp's comes with significant cognitive load, as comes thinking of which directory to point grep at to get desired results. To me, "edit" comes in a similar category: figuring out which file to edit is a multi-step process with the general tools. Having that taken care of is a great help when you're thinking about the mathematics rather than the code primarily. These are all tools that could also be in my personal toolbox, but having them shipped and maintained with the sage distribution is something I really appreciate. (incidentally, "edit" could use some love -- it's not as good at figuring out the appropriate source file as it was 12 years ago, due to organizational changes) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/22a5319c-c92d-409d-9902-027573cf435c%40googlegroups.com.
