Thanks a lot Dan, that works. Is there an easy way to access the files I created in VirtualBox in Windows? I suppose I can email it to myself using the web browser inside VB...
Thanks, Georges On Feb 2, 9:17 pm, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 at 09:55PM -0800, Georges wrote: > > I'm new to Sage/Sun VirtualBox (Windows Vista x64). I can open "sage: > > prompt", "Sage Notebook" (Firefox icon), no problem. I'm trying to > > work on some programming (Sage Tutorials Release 4.3.1, Chapter 5). > > The question I have is how do I create/open/edit a sage file. Is > > there a simple text editor, like Window's notepad that I can use to > > write the code. > > > For example, the tutorial suggests that I create a file called > > example.sage with the following content: > > > print "Hello World" > > print 2^2 > > > I can't figure out how to complete this task. I tried right clicking > > on the VirtualBox desktop and select "Create from Template", then > > "Empty File". It'll let me create a file called "example.sage". > > Double clicking on it opens a window telling me that I should > > associate it with some application which I don't have (So far, I only > > see Firefox Web Browser, Orage, and Sun Java 6 Web Start). I tried to > > find "example.sage" in Windows, by searching for it, but that yield no > > result. > > > So do I need another application, like another .ovf file for text > > editing? > > I just checked and the Virtualbox image doesn't have any nice text > editor (other than vim, which I think is nice but you likely wouldn't). > > Try this: open a terminal and type "sudo apt-get install mousepad". It > will ask for a password, which is "sage". That will install the Mousepad > text editor, which is quite simple but good enough to get started with. > You can access it by clicking on the Debian symbol (the red swirl) -> > Accessories -> Mousepad. > > We should probably have a text editor like Mousepad installed by > default. > > Dan > > -- > --- Dan Drake > ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake > ------- > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
