On Sep 22, 2008, at 18:19 , Jason Grout wrote:
>
> 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?
"Get Info" on a window will get you to the 'inspector'; click the
settings tab, and double-click the window style you are using. The
Keyboard tab in the resulting panel has a "option as meta" check-box.
Justin ("Intuitive, right?")
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