Re: Two Notebooks Open at the Same Time
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- Subject: [mg97551] Re: [mg97490] Two Notebooks Open at the Same Time
- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:19:13 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks David, The reason I ask is that very often when I'm working on one problem, I come up with some scripts that I want to save to use later, but I need to change them slightly and document them right away because the chances of me doing it later are pretty slim. Gregory On Sat, Mar 14, 2009, at 8:11 AM, David Park wrote: > That is a very interesting question. > > Starting with Version 6 the Help page notebooks have their own > internal > context and don't interfere with notebooks in the Global` context. So > perhaps it ought to be able to have a notebook set its own context. > But I > have no idea how to do this and I hope your question will elicit > some useful > responses from WRI or some expert. > > David Park > djmpark at comcast.net > http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ > > > From: Gregory Lypny [mailto:gregory.lypny at videotron.ca] > > > Hello everyone, > > Is it possible to have more than one notebook active at a time, that > is, so that the variables of one do not conflict with variables in > another whose names are the same. I notice that when I open a > Mathematica 7 notebook, under the Evaluation menu, the Default Kernel > is local, the Notebook's Kernel is local, and the Notebook's Default > Context is global. Do I need to change anything? > > Regards, > > Gregory