Re: "Skip this Input cell" module?
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- Subject: [mg68808] Re: "Skip this Input cell" module?
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:41:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Stanford University
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In article <ec3q9g$2fs$1 at smc.vnet.net>, albert <awnl at arcor.de> wrote:
> Another approach that I probably would use
> is to define a stylesheet which has a style UnevaluatableInput which is
> just like Input but will have Evaluatable set to False an maybe change the
> layout of those cells so you don't have to search for differences in cell
> brackets.
YES!! Exactly what I'd also thought of doing since I first raised this
query ("Great minds . . ." and all that).
My idea would be to redefine and rename the Small Text style for this
purpose, since (a) I never use that style for anything else, and (b) its
command key is cmd-8, which is right above cmd-9 for Input cells, which
would make it easy to remember.
The redefinition would be to just copy the Input style definitions to
replace the Small Text definitions in the stylesheet; rename that style
as NonInput; set Evaluatable to False; and add a light background
shading or similar visual cue, so that the NonInput cells would look
exactly like Input cells except for that light shading.
A potentially useful feature would be that one could toggle these
NonInput cells to Input cells globally by globally selecting all the
NonInput cells using Option-click and changing their style. The
downside would be that this "toggling" could not be reversed (though one
could globally select at the Input cells; convert them all to NonInput;
then convert the essential ones back to Input).