Xmaxima Manual: 4. Session control

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# 4. Session control

The `File` menu has sections to manage the work session in Xmaxima. The ``Batch file'` and ``Batch file silently'` sections are equivalent to Maxima's commands `batch` and `batchload`, which can also be used in Xmaxima. The advantage of those two options is that they will open a dialog box that will allow you to navigate through your directories, until you find the one that you are looking for.

The option ``Input prompt'` (`Alt-s`) will repeat the last input label sent back by Maxima. That will be useful if you are working on a text that is not near the last input label and you want to move quickly to the last input.

Option ``Interrupt'` (`Alt-g`) can be used to interrupt a calculation. And the option ``Restart'` will end the current execution of Maxima; a new Maxima process will be invoked, so the input prompt will start again as `(%i1)`.

The option ``Save expressions to file'` will save all the input lines to a file, but as Lisp code. If you want to save some input lines as Maxima code, use function stringout from Maxima.

In the menu `Edit` there is also an option ``Save console to file'` which will save the complete contents of the text window into a file. The input and output will be saved as they look on the screen, and not as they were originally written.

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