[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2009-09-28 Thread pang
On Sep 28, 10:38 am, Maurizio wrote: > Can't we take advantage of inheritance for this issue? I don't know > how far that can go, though, I'm not a programmer... > > Thanks > > Maurizio I think this will cause headaches to non-programmers, if your idea of dependence does not agree with the compu

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2009-09-28 Thread Maurizio
Can't we take advantage of inheritance for this issue? I don't know how far that can go, though, I'm not a programmer... Thanks Maurizio On Sep 28, 9:40 am, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Maurizio wrote: > > > First of all, thank you for the example! > > >> I'm prett

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2009-09-28 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Maurizio wrote: > > First of all, thank you for the example! > >> >> I'm pretty sure it is impossible to decide whether a cells output depends on >> the >> value of a given variable.  You could get it write some of the time by seeing >> if the variable appears,

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2009-09-28 Thread Maurizio
First of all, thank you for the example! > > I'm pretty sure it is impossible to decide whether a cells output depends on > the > value of a given variable. You could get it write some of the time by seeing > if the variable appears, but given the dynamic nature of Python it is > impossible to

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2009-09-27 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Maurizio wrote: > > Hi all, > let me catch this notebook refactoring to ask for something that just > came to my mind. > > Let's assume you have any kind of design or analysis process flow, one > great thing I'd like to have is the chance to define some input > va

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2009-09-27 Thread Francois Maltey
Maurizio wrote : > At the beginning of the worksheet I could write in a cell something like: > > a,b = "any live data" > > So, three cells later I have: > > c = a + b; c > > And whenever I update a or b, the evaluation of that cell is repeated > and c gets updated accordingly... With students all

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2008-07-10 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:45 AM, saucerful <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Along the same lines, another nice thing would be keyboard shortcuts. > The most important being "Interrupt" The escape key is a shortcut for this. > and "Evaluate all." Of course, > we don't want to turn the web browser

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2008-07-10 Thread saucerful
Along the same lines, another nice thing would be keyboard shortcuts. The most important being "Interrupt" and "Evaluate all." Of course, we don't want to turn the web browser into an IDE but I think this is within reason. Perhaps these even exist, as shift+enter evaluates the current cell (this

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2008-07-09 Thread Nick Alexander
On 9-Jul-08, at 9:55 AM, Robert Miller wrote: > >>> Python >>> has amnesia, in a sense -- it never knows where code really came >>> from, but there are ways around this. > > It is also the case that when you load a file, tracebacks simply say > that the error is in "module"... I wish those trace

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Miller
> > Python > > has amnesia, in a sense -- it never knows where code really came > > from, but there are ways around this. It is also the case that when you load a file, tracebacks simply say that the error is in "module"... I wish those tracebacks were more helpful too... --~--~-~--~

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2008-07-08 Thread Mike Hansen
This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3612 --Mike On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8-Jul-08, at 10:08 AM, saucerful wrote: >> >> Is it possible to put links in the trackback messages that refer to >> lines in the current noteook

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook feature request

2008-07-08 Thread Nick Alexander
On 8-Jul-08, at 10:08 AM, saucerful wrote: > > Is it possible to put links in the trackback messages that refer to > lines in the current noteook (as opposed to stuff in the sage or > python libraries) so that you can jump to that line? I have found > that the code that it spits out is usually v