Re: [sage-devel] Re: problem using magma with 4.7 not just in the notebook

2011-05-30 Thread John Cremona
Why the new ticket when #11401 is already open on this? John On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:56 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Nils Bruin wrote: >> This will probably help the person who is going to track down this >> bug: It's not just in the notebook and it looks like n

Re: [sage-devel] Re: problem using magma with 4.7 not just in the notebook

2011-05-30 Thread William Stein
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Nils Bruin wrote: > This will probably help the person who is going to track down this > bug: It's not just in the notebook and it looks like newlines in the > input knock the interface out of sync (but not always!) The following > example fails reliably for me: >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: problem using magma with 4.7 not just in the notebook

2011-05-30 Thread John Cremona
Looking at the magma.eval() function, I see that if the string to be passed to magma does not end in ';' then a semicolon is appended. That is clearly intended for convenience (Sage users are not used to ending lines with ';') but must cause problems with continuation lines, surely? I tried Nils's