Re: Problems with the front end
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- Subject: [mg67263] Re: [mg67232] Problems with the front end
- From: bsyehuda at gmail.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, The front end (FE) allows you to select all the cell of a given type by ALT+left-clicking on the cell bracket. I wonder if you ever modified this option, or something is wrong (sometimes) with the keyboard making the ALT being pressed all the time ? yehuda On 6/13/06, Hans-Peter Kunzle <hpk at shaw.ca> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been using Mathematica for over ten years, > but from time to time I keep running into strange > problems with the front end which happen perhaps > because I may have pressed a wrong key combination > by mistake. (I am using Mathematica 5.2 on a system > with SUSE Linux 10.1.) > > This time the problem is that when I try to execute > a function in an Input cell then all > Input cells in the notebook light up at once and I > get an error message instead of the function executing. > (Similarly when I click on the border of an output > cell all other output cells light up.) > > So far I have been unable to locate an Option in the > FrontEnd preferences that seems to refer to such a > behavior. I have also removed the ~/.Mathematica directory > losing my StyleSheets but the problem persists. > (I also Quit[] Mathematica and even rebooted the computer > without solving the problem.) > > Right now, the only way I can run my programs is > to abandon the frontend altogether. But this is most > inconvenient. > > Can anybody help? > > Hans > >
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- Problems with the front end
- From: Hans-Peter Kunzle <hpk@shaw.ca>
- Problems with the front end