Re: A kernel, multiple notebooks, and Global?
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- Subject: [mg87721] Re: A kernel, multiple notebooks, and Global?
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:02:37 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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AES wrote: > The broad question is then, how far can I go -- or what dangers may lurk > -- in treating these multiple notebooks as essentially one unified > notebook that just happens to be stored in multiple files and appear on > screen in multiple windows? I usually jump between several notebooks in the same session. This hasn't caused any trouble yet. But you should know about a setting that (I think) is new in Mathematica 6: Check the menu item Evaluation -> Notebook's Default Context -> With this setting it is possible to set up different contexts for each notebook, or even each cell group. So just make sure that this is set to Global`. (I think that this setting is saved with the notebook so be careful when you receive notebooks from other people.) Another possible problem: In Mathematica 5 I used to scribble on the documentation pages, and everything I evaluated there was available globally. But it seems that in Mathematica 6 the default setting for doc pages is "unique context to each cell group", so be careful: what you evaluate in doc pages will be put into a separate context.