@halirutan I want it to set the global variable wget to Print["wget"]

@William Like this?

setToPrint[name_] := With[{n = ToString[Unevaluated[name]]},
  name[] := Print[n]
  ]

setToPrint[wget];
wget[]

@William Btw, you need to set the Attributes to HoldFirst if name already has a value..

thank you!

@William But be prepared that you have to hold evaluation in the function body to make it work if name already has a definition.

e.g. on the left side of := name will be evaluated.

@halirutanthank you I would like to do your script reverse start with "wget" as a string and go the othe rway

hmm you know what I probably can do it the other way

@William You can do it like I posted, but just be aware that if you set wget=1, then it won't work.

@Kuba I think this is the answer to what I was asking about earlier.

anyone around?

@William kinda :P

@JacobAkkerboom I'm trying to select all printed out cells in mathematica but I'm fairly stuck

Ahh

I like that

Mathematica 9 and newer can select multilpe cells at once

Yeah..

SelectionMove[First@Cells[CellStyle -> "Output"], All, Cell] works, but not without First, so it only selects one cell

what mathematica version are you using

11.0.0

hmm I'm using 10 currently

Ah it says in the docs: "SelectionMove can only select multiple cells as part of a CellGroup unit specification:"

If you use shift it works so I would assume there would be a way to do this manually

Would this be an acceptable question in your opinion

And below that: "To select a series of individual cells, use a front end token such as "SelectNextLine":". So I suppose there may not be further alternatives

So SelectNextLine is probably what shift+downarrow does

Item[KeyEvent["Down", Modifiers -> {Shift}], "SelectNextLine"] is in KeyEventTranslations.tr

Ah yeah sure, I think the question is acceptable.

@William but maybe I should have asked: Why are you trying to select all output cells? What do you want to do that you cannot do programatically by manipulating CellObjects?

@William I have to go now, sorry. Good luck with this!

@JacobAkkerboom I would like to copy all printed out cells to another notebook