On Dec 4, 2007, at 07:24 , William Stein wrote:
> > On Dec 4, 2007 6:00 AM, mabshoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Dec 4, 11:44 am, fwc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >>> I'm still not sure how to recover my old worksheets. Should I be >>> looking elsewhere? >>> >>> ------ >>> >>> If the files are now going to be in ~/.sage/sage_notebook , >>> browsing >>> there from a Mac is going to be problematic, because Finder windows >>> ignore .* files/directories >>> >> >> Well, we needed per-user notebook setups for certain scenarios, >> but it >> seems that we need to sort out some of the issues caused by this >> transition. Maybe instead of defaulting to "~/.sage" we could >> overwrite that optionally by $SAGE_HOME? > > We still have that notebooks can be in multiple directories -- just > use > sage -notebook path/to/directory > > I think adding an environment variable SAGE_HOME would just > complicate things a lot for users. +1 for this. A couple of things to keep in mind. For one, not all users will know how to deal with this (we may all know people who can profitably use Sage, but for whom the command line is the edge of a cliff they'd rather not stand too close to...) Also, e.g., on Mac OS X, a "real app" does not have access to environment variables (such an app isn't started from a shell). Experience indicates that it can be A Bad Thing to have these in apps, because of the possibility of collision between the variables that different apps will need. There was a long discussion of this on the Mac OS X TeX list a while back. Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds ----------- My wife 'n kids 'n dogs are gone, I can't get Jesus on the phone, But Ol' Milwaukee's Best is my best friend. ----------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@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-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
