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$Notebooks

is True if the Wolfram System is being used with a notebook‐based front end.

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$Notebooks

$Notebooks

is True if the Wolfram System is being used with a notebook‐based front end.

Details

  • $Notebooks is automatically set by the front end when it starts the Wolfram Language kernel.

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Basic Examples  (1)

This tells you that the Wolfram System is being used with a notebook-based front end:

Applications  (1)

An application can check $Notebooks to decide how to behave:

Wolfram Research (1991), $Notebooks, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (1991), $Notebooks, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1991. "$Notebooks." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1991). $Notebooks. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_$notebooks, author="Wolfram Research", title="{$Notebooks}", year="1991", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html}", note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_$notebooks, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={$Notebooks}, year={1991}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html}, note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}