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RE: Re: How do I pick out the expression under a radical?

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• Subject: [mg36804] RE: [mg36788] Re: How do I pick out the expression under a radical?
• From: "DrBob" <drbob at bigfoot.com>
• Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 04:57:05 -0400 (EDT)
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If you want to do it with the mouse, it's not that difficult.  I click
within the part I want and double-click until the part is selected.
(Each double-click expands the selection by one level of nesting.)  Then
push Ctrl-C, click where you want to put the result, and push Ctrl-V.

Does that help any?

Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Gray [mailto:stevebg at adelphia.net] 
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg36804] [mg36788] Re: How do I pick out the expression under a radical?


"Steve Beach" <asb4 at psu.edu> wrote in message
news:akf64b$bgc$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> I'm a poor physicist trying to figure out how to sort out the
> "physical" from the "non-physical" solutions to a problem.  To do
> that, I need to be able to look at an expression and pick out a
> subexpression, the part under the radical.

GRAY:
    This points up the need, which I've been aware of for years, to be
able to select any part of an expression and drag it to a new line for
further processing. Mathematica and the other CAS I'm familiar with are
still
pretty much stuck with a command line interface. They need a true
GUI with extensive interaction.
    When I can see on the screen exactly what I want to do, why
should I have to type a bunch of stuff in to access what I want?
    Maybe we'll see this in version 5? 6? Never?