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?