Manipulating Notebooks

Handling Generated Notebooks

Separation of FE and kernel creates a need for a 'handle' to a notebook expression that is in the front end.

A few handles to specific notebooks:

Some commands:

Changing the Selection

Current selection corresponds to a highlighted section of a notebook in the front end. The current selection can be changed in a number of ways, such as moving it and searching for matching text.

Changing Options

Tagging Cells

It is very useful to be able to assign a 'name' to a cell. The CellTags option lets us do this.

Generalization to the Front End

The front end as a whole also has an object, stored in $FrontEnd. It only has options that can be changed.