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Open notebook in current window

Posted 10 months ago

Is it possible to open a notebook in the current window? This code opens the notebook in a new window but I want to reuse the window of the current notebook. NotebookOpen[(path to notebook)]

POSTED BY: Azer Bajdzan

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Posted 9 months ago

So you want the current window opened with book1.nb to be entirely refreshed with contents of book2.nb and be named book2.nb. Seems like feasible but why?

POSTED BY: Jack I Houng

Posted 9 months ago

I think there may be confusion about what a notebook window is. The comparison with the documentation is unhelpful because the documentation notebooks have a key characteristic: you can edit them, but they don't save. So it is straightforward to refresh their content. Regular notebooks are not like that: they have a name which links them to the saved file. So what do you want to happen? book1.nb is open with the name book1.nb, linked back to the file book1.nb. When you open book2.nb, do you want the window name to change to book2.nb? I'm guessing you do. But that is a new window. What you are really asking is for a new window to appear in the exact same location as the previous window, and for the previous window to go away. Which maybe you can do programmatically. But what you can't do is just 'replace the contents of the window with a new notebook'. You can replace the contents of the window with the contents of the new notebook, as others have demonstrated, but it will still be book1.nb.

POSTED BY: Gareth Russell

Posted 9 months ago

You understand my question the right way. Or I can describe it by a web browser. You can open a link in a new window/tab or reuse current window in a web browser. If you open new link in current window and want to save it then the file name changes according to the new link name. Now do the same with notebooks in Mathematica instead of webpages in a web browser. Such a simple task and I wonder why they did not include such an option for `NotebookOpen` like, say, `ReuseWindow->True`.

POSTED BY: Azer Bajdzan

Posted 9 months ago

Carl's suggestion on `NotebookWrite` can well be used. Since data can also be a complete notebook. An example: Save the following notebook to the default directory (`$HomeDirectory`) and give it the name Example.nb Then, evaluate this in another notebook: NotebookWrite[EvaluationNotebook[], Import["Example.nb"]]

POSTED BY: Hans Milton

Posted 9 months ago

I know that all. But this only modifies current opened notebook. Suppose you have two notebooks in files `book1.nb` and `book2.nb`. You have one opened window with `book1.nb` in it. The task is to open `book2.nb` in the same window were `book1.nb` is. If you use `NotebookWrite[EvaluationNotebook[], Import["book2.nb"]]` in `book1.nb` you just modify `book1.nb` with data of `book2.nb`. Opening in the same window should work like it is with documentation (help). When you have help file of `Plot` function and click on `Plot3D` the help file of `Plot3D` is opened in the same window. Now do the same with `book1.nb` and `book2.nb` like it is with help file of `Plot` and `Plot3D`. And of course it must be done without any resaving of notebook.