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Re: CellChangeTimes?

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• Subject: [mg105831] Re: CellChangeTimes?
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:30:14 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Stanford University
• References: <200912191127.GAA24675@smc.vnet.net> <hgl36q$sf$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <hgl36q$sf$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:

> If you don't want CellChangeTimes at all, you can try to use the Options 
> Inspector setting TrackCellChangeTimes->False.  But I think that will 
> apply only to cells newly created after the change.  Or you could make 
> that a global setting, applicable to all notebooks.  But beware: who 
> knows to what uses that option might be put by Mathematica.  (The docs 
> don't seem to say.)

The Help for this function ought to have had just a sentence or two, 
prominently near the top, telling how to turn  it off (or, if there's a 
valid reason for not turning it off -- which I very much doubt -- 
warning not to turn it off).

Just one more example of the minor but innumerable examples of the 
inadequacy of Wolfram/Mathematica documentation . . . sorry, had to vent 
on this.

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    • From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>