Customizing interaction, the front end, or other aspects of Mathematica manually or programmatically.
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How do I add new menuitems to menus?
What are some complete examples of what one would include in a FrontEnd init.m that would make use of FrontEnd`AddMenuCommands ...
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Display Log with desired notation in output
I wish to display logarithms with different bases in the single-term rather than numerator/denominator form during output:
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How can I change the keyboard shortcut for switching the active window?
The default keyboard shortcut (on Windows at least) for switching focus to the next window is Ctrl+F6, and for switching to the previous windows it's Shift+Ctrl+F6. How can I change this to Ctrl+Tab ...
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How make AddMenuCommands work in an init.m
I want to add some items to the Mathematica 8.0.4 Help menu (under Mac OS X). In
[$UserBaseDirectory]/Autoload/FrontEnd/init.m
I have the following cell:
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Delete the current notebook cell using the keyboard
Is there another way than pressing Ctrl+. until the whole cell is selected and then pressing Del?
If this is not built in, can I create some sort of a global macro to do this and bind it to a ...
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Context unique to each group at a specified level
Recent versions of Mathematica provide the option of having a unique $Context for each cell group, via:
Evaluation > Notebook's Default Context > Unique to Each ...
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Is it possible to customize the Suggestions Bar?
I'd like to be able to customize the Suggestions Bar in v9.0 to provide recommendations of my own. Possible example: when doing unit calculations, I'd like it to suggest converting the answer to ...
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Customize front end to add notifications when evaluation finishes?
Is it possible to add some customization code to the front end, so that when all cells have finished evaluating, some user code can be run?
Background: I'm currently running some Mathematica programs ...
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Best way to add KeyEvents and faster Quit
Many users have asked how to add KeyEvents to speed/improve keyboard input. This is just a random example. The technique is always the same. It requires that you ...
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What is the complete sequence of evaluations/transformations from submitting a cell to actual evaluation?
This question is inspired by that one. Reading it, I noticed that while (I think) I know what happens when entering an expression directly to the kernel (i.e. after typing ...
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Opening a context menu (with the Menu key)
Is it by any chance possible to make the Menu key work as one would expect in Mathematica: opening a context menu?
The Menu key does nothing in version 7 or 8 on Windows.
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Command Completion
Note: As of version 9, this functionality is available and works out of the box.
I've a few questions about Command Completion in Mathematica. I recently discovered this feature, and it's really ...
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Change “Format type of new input cells” to InputForm
In Preferences -> Evaluation there is a menu to change "Format type of new input cells" and the only options available are: StandardForm, TraditionalForm, and Raw InputForm.
Is it possible to set ...
