<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>browse -- browse the contents of an object</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div>next | <a href="index.html">previous</a> | forward | <a href="index.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>browse -- browse the contents of an object</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><tt>browse x</tt> -- provides an interactive mechanism that allows the user to explore the hash table or list <tt>x</tt>.<p/> A menu of numbered items is presented to the user that allow the user to inspect the <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/_class.html" title="class of an object">class</a> or <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/_parent.html" title="parent type of an object">parent</a> of <tt>x</tt>. For a hash table, the keys are presented so the user can visit the corresponding values, and for a list, the entries are presented so the user can visit them. One of the menu items allows the user to go back to re-examine the previous item.</div> </div> </div> </body> </html>