Re: Finding Front-End Options
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- Subject: [mg23804] Re: Finding Front-End Options
- From: "Drago Ganic" <drago.ganic at in2.hr>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 03:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Ted !!! I discovered the same feature some time ago. The really important thing with this feature is that it is *not* case sensitive. Unfortunately the "Complete Selection" [Ctrl-K] feature *is* case sensitive. For example when I write "note" and hit Ctrl-K I don't get anything. That is maybe a good feature [build-in names begin with uppercase]. But when I write "Note", hit Ctrl+K I get quite a long list of built-in names. In this list I cannot find "NotebookPath". But at the right bottom corner of the "Command Completion" window there is an arrow indicating there are more symbols. If I hit "p" I don't get anything. I *have* to hit "P" to get "NotebookPath" among other "NotebookP*" symbols. In my opinion it would be nice that "Complete Selection" is not case sensitive _after_ the "Command Completition" window is popped up. Greetings from Croatia, Drago Ganic "Ersek, Ted R" <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil> wrote in message news:8hfd81$hgf at smc.vnet.net... > > Suppose you are looking for a Front-End option that has something to do with > Margins, but you don't know what it's called. What are you to do? > > I accidentally discovered that you can go in the Option Inspector and type > Margin > in the 'Lookup' prompt and press Ent, Ent, Ent, ... > The Option Inspector will take you through every option with the word > Margin! Now that I know about this trick I have to wonder why I didn't try > it before. > > This works in Version 3 and Version 4 (under MS-Windows). I hope it works > with other platforms as well. > ----------- > Depending what you are looking for you may need to first select > 'Show option values for notebook' or > 'Show option values for global'. > > ------------ > Instead you could use my (Info3.m) or (Infor4.m) package which I wrote long > before I discovered the above trick. You can down load this package from > http://www.mathsource.com/cgi-bin/msitem?0210-957 > > -------------------- > Regards, > Ted Ersek > > Mathematica tips, tricks are at > http://www.verbeia.com/mathematica/tips/Tricks.html > *** For now the down loaded notebook looks much better than the HTML > version. *** >