Hi!

I only know one dirty joke in mathematics.

"What is the square root of 69?     Answer:    "Eight something."

Cheers,

Math Bear




________________________________
 From: William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>
To: sage-edu@googlegroups.com 
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [sage-edu] Re: Amusing Sage anecdotes
 
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> writes:
>> Rather enjoying my off day, but the lingering effects of pchem
>> homework remain.. I keep hitting shift+enter instead of enter cuz Ive
>> been using Sage so much!
>
> That is kind of backwards from most UIs, isn't it?  Typically shift+enter
> is used to insert a literal line break in an input field and enter is
> used to submit.

The input part of a cell is a multiline textarea, and enter is rarely
the submit keystroke in a multiline input in other UI's.    Usually
enter creates a carriage return and there is a button to submit (e.g.,
see every web form, Google +, Facebook posts, etc.).  Of course,
Facebook *comments* on posts make enter submit and shift-enter a
newline.

> I guess we originally borrowed this behavior from
> Mathematica, which is another program that has the same "backwards"
> behavior that we do.

We do this mainly because Mathematica does.   In Salvus, the submit
keyboard shortcut will be configurable, which is definitely the right
choice.

William

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