Showing input cells

[Rob Beezer]

I graded a student worksheet today, and all of his input cells were hidden. My
usual drill to reveal input is to double-click on the output.

In my haste to finish grading, I was double-clicking in the output cell to the
far right of the text (and nothing happens). I gave him a bad score for not
including his input.

Well, we got it sorted and he got 100%. Seems (in Firefox) that you need to
double-click within the text.

Is this known, understood, expected? Can it be improved so a double-click
*anywhere* in the output cell reveals the input?

If an issue is warranted, just say so and I'll migrate all this there.

Otherwise, another efficient and seamless grading session. Thanks.

Rob

[William Stein]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Rob Beezer <bee...@ups.edu> wrote:
> I graded a student worksheet today, and all of his input cells were hidden.
> My usual drill to reveal input is to double-click on the output.
>
> In my haste to finish grading, I was double-clicking in the output cell to
> the far right of the text (and nothing happens). I gave him a bad score for
> not including his input.
>
> Well, we got it sorted and he got 100%. Seems (in Firefox) that you need to
> double-click within the text.
>
> Is this known, understood, expected? Can it be improved so a double-click
> *anywhere* in the output cell reveals the input?
>
> If an issue is warranted, just say so and I'll migrate all this there.

https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/issues/888

>
> Otherwise, another efficient and seamless grading session. Thanks.
>
> Rob
>

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[kcrisman]

> Well, we got it sorted and he got 100%.  Seems (in Firefox) that you need to
> double-click within the text.
>
> Is this known, understood, expected?  Can it be improved so a double-click
> *anywhere* in the output cell reveals the input?
>

This brings up an issue I am constantly dealing with when I (granted, not that often) use SMC - that it seems unnatural to me to double click the output to get the input cell.  That is of course because I am used to sagenb.  But my point is that I don't see how anyone is supposed to "figure out" how to do this on their own.  I have started so many new cells by trying to single click on the input cells (I can still see the "missing" range of lines, after all).  Can't there be a hover tooltip or something?  Perhaps that would be ostentatious, but I find it really mystifying and constantly forget that this is what I have to do.

At the least, perhaps clicking on the left on the range that is "missing" should pop those open, like code folding in the editors I use; that would seem to be an eminently discoverable compromise if a tooltip is deemed unacceptable.