Re: Re: Can you get a package back to a notebook easily?
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- Subject: [mg83037] Re: [mg83003] Re: Can you get a package back to a notebook easily?
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:10:47 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 06:29:53 -0500 (EST), Szabolcs Horv=E1t wrote: > David Reiss wrote: > >> Actually, in Version 6+ the answer is no. >> >> The initialization cells are saved, and some other classes of cells >> are contained as comments with special information that allows them to >> still be viewed when the .m file opened in Mathematica. >> >> Try it out and then open the .m file in a text editor to see this... >> > Can you give an example? Before I replied, I tried it with a notebook > that only had input cells and text cells. Only the initialization input > cells were saved. > > Szabolcs It depends upon the method of saving. Auto-saved packages do not include non-initialization cells (they did in 6.0.0, actually, but that was corrected later). But working with the package editor (File->New->Package) or using Save As for the Package file type will preserve other cells in comments. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc.