Re: v9: variable name colour?
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- Subject: [mg129070] Re: v9: variable name colour?
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- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:55:17 -0500 (EST)
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I am currently experiencing this problem. I just installed Mathematica 9 and all variables remain blue after being defined. On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 9:10:00 AM UTC, John Fultz wrote: > We've had some other reports of this behavior, but we haven't seen it > > ourselves. If you or anybody else in this forum is still seeing the > > problem, I'd like to pursue this further in a private discussion and see > > if you can help us investigate the problem. > > > > John Fultz > > jfultz at wolfram.com > > User Interface Group > > Wolfram Research, Inc. > > > > > > > > On Dec 3, 2012, at 3:03 AM, Gordon Robertson <grobertson at bcgsc.ca> wrote: > > > > > > > > On OS X, variable colours are now behaving as they did in v8. I've not yet > > > identified which conditions give me the awkward always-blue variables and which give the current blue-to-black behaviour. (I'd crashed v9 and restarted it, and reopened the notebook that I'd been working on.) > > > > > > Gordon > > > > > > On 2012-12-02, at 1:03 PM, Gordon Robertson wrote: > > > > > > In v8 (on OS X), the name of a variable that did not have a value assigned was blue, and it changed to black when a value had been assigned to it. This was simple and very handy. > > > > > > After a day of using v9, all user-defined variables seem to be blue, period. > > > > > > Preferences | Appearance | Other offers 'Global symbols that had no value assigned' as blue by default. But if I type in and execute something simple like: aVariable=2, the variable name is blue before and after I've assigned it the value 2. > > > > > > I'd prefer to have a distinct colour for variable with no value assigned. Am I missing something simple? Apologies if I am. > > > > > > Gordon > > > -- > > > Gordon Robertson > > > Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre > > > BC Cancer Agency > > > Vancouver BC Canada > > > www.bcgsc.ca<http://www.bcgsc.ca/>