Alphanumeric cell IDs, resize on paste (#2902), ESC ends introspection (#5644), JSLint for notebook_lib.js

[qed777]

This ticket

• Makes it possible to assign alphanumeric cell IDs.
• Should subsume
  • notebook -- resize of cell should also fire on paste into the cell #2902 - Resize an input cell after a paste event.
  • make it so escape make the introspection window in the notebook disappear #5644 - Make ESC close introspection windows.
• Runs notebook_lib.js "through" JSLint.

Patch:

• http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/mpatel/trac/7666/trac_7666-alphanumeric_cell_ids_B5.patch

Suggested queue, applied to SageNB 0.4.9 + #7269:

trac_7843-cell_listdir.patch
trac_7844-notebook_address.patch
trac_7847-empty_trash_ie_ff.patch
trac_7846-no_CODE_PY_symlinks_v2.patch
trac_7650-sagenb_doctesting_v4.patch    # Possible trivial failed "hunk" here.
trac_7786-template-jinja-idiomatic.12.patch
trac_7871-interact_bgcolor.patch
trac_7858-key_binding_vars_v2.patch
trac_7863-declare_vars_aux_js_v2.patch
trac_7874-typeset_interact_labels.patch
trac_7666-alphanumeric_cell_ids_B5.patch

Or install this spkg:

• http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/mpatel/trac/7666/sagenb-0.5-7666b5.spkg

CC: @williamstein @TimDumol @boothby @mwhansen

Component: notebook

Author: Mitesh Patel

Reviewer: Tim Dumol

Merged: sagenb-0.6

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/7666

[qed777]

Description changed:

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 Preparatory work for #6855.
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+Patch:
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+* http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mpatel/trac/7666/trac_7666-alphanumeric_cell_ids_v9.patch

[qed777]

Author: Mitesh Patel

[qed777]

comment:2

Please the commit string for a brief summary. Other notes:

• Depends on notebook: move preparsing to the worksheet process and out of the server (was: weird pointless line) #7483, provide a mode so that undeclared variables magically spring into existence and object oriented notation is not necessary #7482, rewrite load and attach #7514, Fix sagenb doctesting #7650, SageNB -- Change table layouts to CSS layouts #7269. Negligible dependence on notebook: issue with indentation of first line being wrong #7648.

• It seems that auto-indentation was already broken in IE8. V9 does not fix the problem.

• Possible CSS problem: The rendered completions menu is just two columns (not characters) wide in IE8 and O10.

• On introspection: I think I've reproduced most of the standard behavior. New: Pressing TAB for explicitly requested docstrings or source code toggles between both.

• We might use jQuery's data store to keep cells and their variables together.

• IE8 CPU problem: jsMath seems to be involved, somehow. Try factor(factorial(100)), say, and scrolling up and down.

[qed777]

comment:3

A pre-existing bug:

• "Evaluate All" cells in a worksheet.
• Evaluate the last cell.
• A new cell is not automatically inserted in the notebook.
• Reload to see the new cell.

? It seems the client and server cell lists are out of sync. This might explain the "spontaneously appended cell" phenomenon.

[qed777]

comment:4

In v9, "Evaluate All" can delay the updates of freshly rendered interacts. I can restore their priority (e.g., prepend their IDs to the active_cell_list) here or at #6855.

[qed777]

comment:5

Replying to @qed777:

A pre-existing bug:
[...]
? It seems the client and server cell lists are out of sync. This might explain the "spontaneously appended cell" phenomenon.

The "B"-series of patches at #6855 should fix this problem.

[qed777]

Description changed:

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+++ 
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Preparatory work for #6855.
 
-Patch:
+Patches at:
 
-* http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mpatel/trac/7666/trac_7666-alphanumeric_cell_ids_v9.patch
+* http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mpatel/trac/7666/

[qed777]

comment:6

V10 at

• http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mpatel/trac/7666/

is rebased vs. Sage 4.3, SageNB 0.4.8, #7483, #7482, #7514, #7650, #7269.

[qed777]

comment:7

The latest, V13, is rebased vs. #7811.