"?" to find symbols
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- Subject: [mg26297] "?" to find symbols
- From: sch at mitre.org (Stuart Schaffner)
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:20:07 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Sometimes, especially when I have read in some data from a file, I like to see what symbols have been defined. If I suspect that there are symbols of the form foonnn, I will add the command ?Global\foo* to a notebook. This has worked for several years. Using the new version 4.1 on MS Windows 98 (Second Edition), I am getting unpleasant behavior. Sometimes it works as expected, but most of the time the front end hangs. (microrant: why is there still no interrupt/abort for the front end?) Not only does it hang, but if I wait for a long time before using CTRL+ALT+DEL to kill it, subsequent attempts to start up Mathematica hang on "initializing internal clipboards...". I was able to restart Mathematica only after deleting the .m file for the offending notebook. I presume there is a lot of data to look at in Global, and I shouldn't be accessing it this way. Should I always use a namespace, or is there some other mechanism entirely? Stu Schaffner not speaking for The MITRE Corp. nor for the Northeastern University Dept of Physics