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

Mathematica allows convenient discovery and customization of all aspects of its system setup.

It is always a good idea to give variables and functions names that are as explicit as possible. Sometimes, however, such names may get inconveniently long. In Mathematica, ...

The hierarchy of levels at which options can be set. Here is a notebook containing three cells. This is what happens when the setting CellFrame->True is made specifically for ...

Mathematica provides a uniquely powerful interactive environment for building up arbitrarily complex computations, under convenient interactive or programmatic control.

In the standard notebook front end, Mathematica allows you to set a large number of global options. The values of all these options are by default saved in a "preferences ...

CreateIntermediateDirectories is an option for CreateDirectory and related functions that specifies whether to create intermediate directories in a directory path specified.

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FileType["file"] gives the type of a file, typically File, Directory, or None.

ExtractArchive[file] expands an archive file, saving its content into the current directory.ExtractArchive[file, dir] saves the content of an archive file into directory ...