Evaluation Options in Notebooks
Mathematica allows you to specify in detail what should happen when you press
Shift+Enter to evaluate a cell in a notebook, or
Ctrl+Shift+Enter to evaluate an expression in place.
Evaluatable — whether a cell or other expression is evaluatable
CellProlog,
CellEpilog — expression to evaluate before, after evaluating a cell
CellEvaluationFunction — function to apply when evaluation is requested
InitializationCell — mark a cell to be evaluated when a notebook is opened
NotebookAutoSave — automatically save a notebook after each evaluation
OutputSizeLimit — maximum size for explicit output (default:
$OutputSizeLimit)
CellAutoOverwrite — overwrite output cells when new ones are generated
— localized context by notebook, cell, etc.
CellContext — localized contexts for symbols in a cell
— kernel to use for a notebook
— configure remote kernels
Evaluator — the name of the evaluator to use for a cell or expression
— whether to do dynamic updating