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From: Nate Dudenhoeffer on 26 Mar 2010 06:34
I would really like to be able to have multiple windows of the same notebook
open. Often I will have a very long notebook. This feature would be
especially handy in debugging, as often the way something is declared at the
beginning of the notebook will create problems later. Anybody else out
there think this would be useful?

Nate


From: David Park on 27 Mar 2010 06:08
Well, in Workbench, with package.m files, you can have multiple windows of
the same file open at once and watch them side by side.

I don't know how this can easily be done with a notebook in regular
Mathematica - or Workbench. But you could use Sectional organization in the
notebook and have all the sections closed except the ones you are interested
in. It is a little difficult to understand precisely how you are using the
notebook that requires this.


David Park
djmpark(a)comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/



From: Nate Dudenhoeffer [mailto:dudenhoeffer(a)wisc.edu]

I would really like to be able to have multiple windows of the same notebook
open. Often I will have a very long notebook. This feature would be
especially handy in debugging, as often the way something is declared at the
beginning of the notebook will create problems later. Anybody else out
there think this would be useful?

Nate




From: Murray Eisenberg on 27 Mar 2010 06:11
There may be all kinds of issues of simultaneously updating two or more
windows that provide good reasons not to implement what you ask.

Why not just copy the beginning part of the notebook into a new, blank
notebook? Then you can have that in front of you you want to have in
front of you into another notebook.


On 3/26/2010 6:34 AM, Nate Dudenhoeffer wrote:
> I would really like to be able to have multiple windows of the same notebook
> open. Often I will have a very long notebook. This feature would be
> especially handy in debugging, as often the way something is declared at the
> beginning of the notebook will create problems later. Anybody else out
> there think this would be useful?
>
> Nate
>
>

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Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305

From: Murray Eisenberg on 27 Mar 2010 06:12
In my reply of a few minutes ago I forgot another solution to your
problem. You are organizing your notebook into sections, subsections,
etc., right? (If not, you should be!)

Then just collapse the entire sections, etc., groups between the
beginning of the notebook and where you're working at the end.

On 3/26/2010 6:34 AM, Nate Dudenhoeffer wrote:
> I would really like to be able to have multiple windows of the same notebook
> open. Often I will have a very long notebook. This feature would be
> especially handy in debugging, as often the way something is declared at the
> beginning of the notebook will create problems later. Anybody else out
> there think this would be useful?
>
> Nate
>
>

--
Murray Eisenberg murray(a)math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305

From: Nate Dudenhoeffer on 7 Apr 2010 03:18
I use Mathematica for data processing on some large data sets. Often this
involves using a "For" loop, which may have many steps. I know it
preferable to use "map" type functions, but this is not always practical.
For example processing time-dependent data where the result of element n
determines how element n+1 will be processed. I often look back at early
in the loop to see how I have defined variables.

Thanks for the suggestions on technique. I should probably also make a
practice of defining more sub-routines, which can be called with a single
command and that would make it easier to navigate. I don't think having
multiple windows is a major issue, but I would find it convenient.

Nate

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murray(a)math.umass.edu>wrote:

> In my reply of a few minutes ago I forgot another solution to your
> problem. You are organizing your notebook into sections, subsections,
> etc., right? (If not, you should be!)
>
> Then just collapse the entire sections, etc., groups between the
> beginning of the notebook and where you're working at the end.
>
> On 3/26/2010 6:34 AM, Nate Dudenhoeffer wrote:
> > I would really like to be able to have multiple windows of the same
> notebook
> > open. Often I will have a very long notebook. This feature would be
> > especially handy in debugging, as often the way something is declared at
> the
> > beginning of the notebook will create problems later. Anybody else out
> > there think this would be useful?
> >
> > Nate
> >
> >
>
> --
> Murray Eisenberg murray(a)math.umass.edu
> Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
> Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
> University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
> 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
> Amherst, MA 01003-9305
>
>
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