default display of reals & last command behavior in terminal
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg77672] default display of reals & last command behavior in terminal
- From: Juneappal <Juneappal at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:18:59 -0400 (EDT)
2 Questions: 1. I know I can use $Post = (# /. x_ /; x =E2=89=A4 0.01 \[Or] x > 1000 :> EngineeringForm[x,5]) &; To make Mathematica display Reals in Engineer's notation. Is there any way to make this the default behavior so I don't have cut and paste every time I start up a kernel? 2. When I use Mathematica via the terminal in MacOSX, I find myself wanting to be able to use the up arrow to get the last command back on the screen (as in Bash and other programs). Instead I get nonsense control characters. Is there a particular terminal emulation I need to FORCE? Thanks, Adam