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authorGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2002-08-29 01:45:58 +0000
committerGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2002-08-29 01:45:58 +0000
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@@ -28,24 +28,25 @@ Current "experimental" features
in orange. This allows easy editing of theories to remove
dead lemmas, re-order proofs, etc.
- Only works for Isabelle/classic at the moment (support is
- required from proof assistant authors: please mention to them).
- You must select the Isabelle option "Theorem Dependencies",
- and then restart Isabelle.
+ This only works for a pre-release version of Isabelle at the moment.
+ (Support is required from other proof assistant authors: please
+ mention to them). You must select the Isabelle setting
+ "Theorem Dependencies".
** Active highlighting for variables in Isabelle.
Moving the mouse over variables in the goal display will display
some information. The information in Isabelle/Isar is the type of
- the variable, usually. In Isabelle it is useless.
- This feature is a hint of what could be done with proper subterm
+ the variable, often, but it depends on the context and may be
+ wrong. In Isabelle/classic the type information is useless.
+ This feature is a vague hint of what could be done with proper subterm
markup from the Isabelle engine. Without this, it cannot work
- well, because no context is available to Proof General, so only
- variables bound at the outer level can have meaningful information
- displayed, via the "term" command.
+ well, because no context is available for Proof General to send
+ back to the prover, so only variables bound at the outer level can
+ have sensible information displayed, via the "term" command.
Known problems with experimental features
=========================================
-** Move up/down functions make spoil visibility behaviour.
+** Move up/down functions may spoil visibility behaviour.
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