[IPython-dev] Bumping up priority of thinking about output scrolling/control

[Brian Granger]

Let's continue this discussion on Min's PR...

Cheers,

Brian

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Jason Grout <jason-sage at creativetrax.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/12 10:30 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Brian Granger<ellisonbg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> i can look into this.  But the other option for the output of multiple
>>> engines is to build a simple widget that has a slider and allows you
>>> the slide through the output of the different engines.  But I agree
>>> that we need a more general solution to this issue.
>>
>> I think it's worth thining about the clean solution for the long run:
>> Titus had examples that were unmanageable even without any
>> parallelism, simply because of very long running code that had super
>> verbose stdout.  Without something to manage output size, his demos
>> would have been simply impossible.  He actually did the public demos
>> off Min's quick branch, but that's not a long-term solution :)
>>
>> So let's see what we can do for a clean solution we're happy with that
>> applies even in the absence of multiple engines.  Obviously your idea
>> could also be quite useful for that case, but let's first think about
>> what to do with stdout of absurd lengths...
>
> Just FYI, Sage takes a slightly different approach.  When output reaches
> a certain length, it is instead saved off to a file, and just the start
> and ending of the output is displayed, separated by a noticeable
> ellipsis.  At the end, there is a link to the output file, which, when
> clicks, opens up in the browser to display all of the output.  While
> output is being returned, this display (of the last bit of output) is
> continuously updated.  See http://sagenb.org/home/pub/4784/ for an example.
>
> Mathematica 8 displays the first and last bit of output, but then
> there's a button which will show progressively more output.  See the
> last example at
> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/ShortAndShallowOutput.html.
>
> Jason
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Brian E. Granger
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