resolved. used

info vars

to see the available variables. i wanted

cellname

You're very good at answering your own questions before I get a chance to read them.

I should give myself a 5 min delay before asking/answering questions on here ^^

No, it's interesting to see both questions and answers!

Question. I started up magic like so

magic cellname1.mag &

and when I run

puts $cellname

I get

cellname1.mag

, but when I load a new cell in

load cellname2.mag

and run

puts $cellname

, I still get

cellname1.mag

but I expect

cellname2.mag

. Is this expected behavior? I feel like the

cellname

var should change with each

load

"$cellname" is not an advertised feature. . . it's just a variable set by the startup script to track where the cell name is on the command line, if there is one. If my setup script were cleaner, I would unset it. If you want the name of the cell in the current layout window, use

cellname list window

.