Re: CellChangeTimes?
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- Subject: [mg105829] Re: CellChangeTimes?
- From: magma <maderri2 at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:57:18 -0500 (EST)
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On Dec 19, 12:27 pm, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote: > CellChangeTimes seems to be a new field that's been added, or at least > shows up, when you apply Show Expression to a cell. > > For me at least, and the way I use Mathematica, it doesn't seem to be > anything I'll ever want to use or know about, and after a while it adds > an immense amount of distracting clutter to the results of Show > Expression (and presumably takes up a bit of unnecessary file space in > each notebook). > > Any easy way to turn this capability off or eliminate it (at the deepest > and most permanent and most global level that is reasonably possible)? > -- or at least to suppress the display? > > Any potential harmful effects to doing this, that may not be immediately > evident? I think I saw a way to suppress time logging, but I leave that to somebody else more knowledgeable in the matter. I am more interested in knowing why you seem to be using Show Expression so often that this feature bothers you? I personally use it veeery rarely. Last time a few hours ago to answer a post here relating to the special characters palette. I think I used it several months ago the prior time. Show Expression has a very complex output and IMO should only be used by "hackers" and not regular Mathematica users. going so low level is not too time efficient for regular users. If one wants to discover something very special, it is faster to ask here in MathGroup. If you want to see how things work internally (up to a certain level), FullForm should be enough for regular Mathematica users (that is anybody who is not a computer scientist). So: why do you use Show Expression so often to be bothered by CellChangeTimes ?