David Philp wrote: > > On 23/09/2008, at 11:00 AM, Bob Wonderly wrote: > >> I run Sage on my Mac rather than on the web. I often bring up the >> previous command and edit it then rerun it. The editor is very tedious >> in that the only way I have figured out how to move the cursor >> around in >> the text is one character at a time using the left and right arrow >> keys >> and the back-space-delete key. Given a several-line for-loop to edit >> this can be frustrating. > > Mmmm... at the command line, ctrl-a and ctrl-e take you to the start > and end of the line. In many OS X applications, ctrl-option-b jumps > back by a word (roughly standard readline behaviour) but as far as I > can tell, nothing like this works in sage's command line (which is a > shame.)
What is the "meta" key in OS X? For me, pressing escape (my meta key) and then b takes me back a word. Does option-b take you back? Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---