Re: Re: Re: Conveniently Restarting Notebooks
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- Subject: [mg51249] Re: [mg51229] Re: [mg51150] Re: [mg51114] Conveniently Restarting Notebooks
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:57:22 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200410090818.EAA09677@smc.vnet.net>
- Reply-to: drbob at bigfoot.com
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>> Then you type the closing bracket and bang again. Gone. What do you mean by that? >> I like the horizontal scrolling with unmatched parentheses What? >> , but would like to see the thing stabilized in the vertical direction Huh? Bobby On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 04:18:48 -0400 (EDT), Tom Aldenberg <Tom.Aldenberg at rivm.nl> wrote: > > Hope this is not off the point too much. > > I never understood why the notebook front end allows you to play in > multiple windows with the same kernel, to jump around within each of them, > and between them, yielding a nonlinear sequence of Ins and Outs, and why > the calculation order, nor which (other) notebooks are involved in the > project, is not saved at all, hence cannot be recovered. > > The front end is fantastic of course for scientific communication. I have > still some complaints. > > 1. Once in a while the In-Out combinations go astray, and the corresponding > Out of an In is not overwritten, but pushed down. Don't know when/why that > happens. I can't get rid of it. It spreads through the whole notebook. > > 2. I started using mixed color font coding within identifiers, say to > highlight word segments like Global or Default. After a while tiny white > space gets between the colors, and the Find (Ctrl + F) utility cannot > retrieve the whole words anymore. Had to stop doing that. Find needs more > options, whole words, formatting, color. > > 3. I create input cells spreading over multiple screens, extensively using > Maeder's Class mechanism. If you edit inside these inputs, unbalanced > parentheses or brackets cause the text to scroll unpredictably and the > cursor to jump from top to bottom to the middle and so forth. Each time you > have to find back the cursor. Then you type the closing bracket and bang > again. Gone. If you have to do that for hours you go completely nuts. I > like the horizontal scrolling with unmatched parentheses, but would like to > see the thing stabilized in the vertical direction, when you are just > typing within a line. > > Regards, > Tom > > Tom Aldenberg > RIVM > PO Box 1 > NL-3720 BA Bilthoven > Netherlands > T: +31 30 2743137 > F: +31 30 2744413 > E: tom.aldenberg at rivm.nl > > > > > -- DrBob at bigfoot.com www.eclecticdreams.net
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- Re: Re: Conveniently Restarting Notebooks
- From: "Tom Aldenberg" <Tom.Aldenberg@rivm.nl>
- Re: Re: Conveniently Restarting Notebooks