EditIn
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: EditIn
- From: David Sibley <sibley at math.psu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 11:52:02 -0400
I am running Mathematica 2.0 on a SparcStation. Since there is no notebook interface, I would like to be able to use EditIn. However, EditIn seems to work only once. Here's what I mean. In[1]:= x=3 Out[1]= 3 In[2]:= EditIn[1] (* In the editor I change the "x=3" to "x=4". *) Out[2]= 4 In[3]:= EditIn[2] In the edit buffer I find not the wanted "x=4", available for further editing, but "EditIn[1]". Now I admit that "EditIn[1]" is what I typed to the prompt, but that's not what I want to be able to edit here. Is there some way around this? Can I recover the "x=4" for re-editing? Of course, this is much more of a problem with more complicated multi-line input, or when doing class demonstrations with many similar input lines. Yes, I realize I can save the original "x=4" when in the editor the first time, and yes, I know I can use cut-and-paste and ignore EditIn altogether, but that doesn't explain the brain-damaged behavior here. If it would just work right it would be a lot more useful. David Sibley sibley at math.psu.edu