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Replying to my own comment, I have a plot and a text file open side by side. I want to change a value in the text file and I want the plot to be updated automat
by fizixer 9y ago
Replying to my own comment, I have a plot and a text file open side by side. I want to change a value in the text file and I want the plot to be updated automatically. The update might not be trivial, behind the scenes maybe the text file is an input to a simulation that runs for a minute, then computes some values in a table that are used for the plot. Can Jupyter allow you to do that?
Point being, offering an IDE in 2018 is not interesting unless you added something "smart" to the IDE that makes the life of the engineer/scientist easier compared to the rest. Otherwise, IDE's are being developed for the last three decades or more.
- wenc 9y agoWith respect to your parent comment: the IDE can be made to log UI context switches, but it cannot interpret intention. This is a very unusual and I suspect very sub-optimal thing for an IDE to support, whatever year it is supposed to have been built. If you really want those events to be recorded, you need to either annotate your code, or programatically have it invoke something. As for graphics updating on file-change event, that can probably be supported through an extension. This is similar to how certain LaTeX editors automatically re-render the doc on a change-event.