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Re: Can you get a package back to a notebook easily?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg83085] Re: Can you get a package back to a notebook easily?
• From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:40:12 -0500 (EST)
• References: <fgur89$r8q$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Nov 8, 6:17 am, John Fultz <jfu... at wolfram.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 06:29:53 -0500 (EST), Szabolcs Horv=E1t wrote:
> > David Reiss wrote:
>
> >> Actually, in Version 6+ the answer is no.
>
> >> The initialization cells are saved, and some other classes of cells
> >> are contained as comments with special information that allows them to
> >> still be viewed when the .m file opened in Mathematica.
>
> >> Try it out and then open the .m file in a text editor to see this...
>
> > Can you give an example?  Before I replied, I tried it with a notebook
> > that only had input cells and text cells.  Only the initialization input
> > cells were saved.
>



Ah! So that's the reason why what I wrote earlier about non
initialization cells appearing in comments for a auto-saved package
wasn't behaving as I remembered it.  I had thought it was a dream that
I had that somehow entered my reality.  No, just a change in going
from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1.

--David

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> > Szabolcs
>
> It depends upon the method of saving.  Auto-saved packages do not include
> non-initialization cells (they did in 6.0.0, actually, but that was corrected
> later).  But working with the package editor (File->New->Package) or using Save
> As for the Package file type will preserve other cells in comments.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Fultz
> jfu... at wolfram.com
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