[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-09-03 Thread Maurizio
thanks guys :) it was just an issue with missing environmental variables like SAGE_ROOT I think, in the .emacs file. now I hardcoded the directory where SAGE is, and I'm (slowly) going to try sage-mode thanks everybody! maurizio On 31 Ago, 10:51, Pierre wrote: > maurizio, you should perhaps g

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-31 Thread Pierre
maurizio, you should perhaps get in touch with Nick Alexander about your emacs issues. The instructions you pointed at are the ones which worked for me straight away (on Aquamacs, but any recent emacs should do). what exactly is the matter ? i'll try and help. On Aug 30, 7:22 pm, Maurizio wrote

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-30 Thread John Cremona
Maurizio, I have been using emacs for about 20 years and I could not get sage-mode to work either -- it turned out that I had a not very new version of emacs. (I'll try again soon). If you are editing .py files then emacs's python mode works well enough, and you can also tell emacs to treat .sa

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-30 Thread Maurizio
I agree! In fact, learning sage-mode has been the reason for me to start learning emacs. The problem is that I've never used emacs and I don't really have so much time to spend on setting it up, and moreover, I couldn't find so many information about sage-mode. Apart from this wiki page: http://

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-30 Thread ahmet alper parker
http://www.bitfolge.de/pubs/thesis/ Can this help Sage in any way? AAP On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Pierre wrote: > > Maurizio, you should try emacs with sage-mode. It's exactly what you > (and I) want. > > Pierre > > On Aug 29, 8:57 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:14

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-30 Thread Pierre
Maurizio, you should try emacs with sage-mode. It's exactly what you (and I) want. Pierre On Aug 29, 8:57 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Maurizio wrote: > > > > > > > On 29 Ago, 19:21, William Stein wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Maurizio > >wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-29 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Maurizio wrote: > > > On 29 Ago, 19:21, William Stein wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Maurizio >wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > I have a question. > > > Would you please consider adding a feature in the notebook, if you > > > happen to work on thi

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-29 Thread Maurizio
On 29 Ago, 19:21, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Maurizio wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > I have a question. > > Would you please consider adding a feature in the notebook, if you > > happen to work on this? > > > My desire would be to have the chance to choose a slightly diffe

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-29 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Maurizio wrote: > > Hi! > I have a question. > Would you please consider adding a feature in the notebook, if you > happen to work on this? > > My desire would be to have the chance to choose a slightly different > type of worksheet: a "single cell"-like mode, that

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-28 Thread Maurizio
Hi! I have a question. Would you please consider adding a feature in the notebook, if you happen to work on this? My desire would be to have the chance to choose a slightly different type of worksheet: a "single cell"-like mode, that I intend this way: - one single cell to insert code, possibly w

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-28 Thread Jason Moxham
SAGE goes retro http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Gallery/153867,computer-history-museum-photo-gallery-weird-fascinating-photos-including-a-giant-cray-and-a-60kg-hard-drive.aspx/10 On Thursday 27 August 2009 23:38:41 William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi

[sage-devel] Re: 10 myths about GUI design

2009-08-27 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > The Sage notebook is about to get an overhaul in the next few months. > Some areas that might need changes are the user interface, the API, > scalability, and performance. If there is any plan to do some cosmetic > facelift to t