Session Customization (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica allows almost every aspect of sessions to be customized, under full programmatic control.

New in 6.0: Symbolic Computation (Mathematica Guide)

NotebookAutoSave (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

NotebookAutoSave is a notebook option which specifies whether the notebook should automatically be saved after each piece of output generated by evaluation in it.

$Aborted (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$Aborted is a special symbol that is returned as the result from a calculation that has been aborted.

PreemptProtect (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PreemptProtect[expr] evaluates expr, without any interruption from preemptive evaluations.

Interrupts and Aborts (Mathematica Tutorial)

"Interrupting Calculations" describes how you can interrupt a Mathematica computation by pressing appropriate keys on your keyboard. In some cases, you may want to simulate ...

Update (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Update[symbol] tells Mathematica that hidden changes have been made which could affect values associated with a symbol. Update[] specifies that the value of any symbol could ...

MatchLocalNames (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MatchLocalNames is an option for Trace and related functions that specifies whether symbols such as x should match symbols with local names of the form x$nnn.

AbortProtect (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

AbortProtect[expr] evaluates expr, saving any aborts until the evaluation is complete.

Core Language (Mathematica Overview)

"How to" Topics Building Up Calculations Lists