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Thanks for taking the time to write down your thoughts! What are some of the use cases where you find the interactive window superior to Jupyter? Do you use Jup

Thanks for taking the time to write down your thoughts! What are some of the use cases where you find the interactive window superior to Jupyter? Do you use Jupyter as a complement or a replacement to VS Code? Sorry about the annoying behavior! Some of this is clearly our fault, and I've asked the team to come by and respond to this. I've also added this to the list of things to chat with the VS Code team about as well. Disclaimer: I originally came up with the idea for the interactive window based on the design constraints of VS Code, but the team that is currently working on this deserves all the credit for building and extending the original idea.

benjaminjackman 7y ago
Let me just say I didn't mean to come across as overly negative, I think everyone working on the extension has done a fantastic job, it's a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things I use multiple different machines so while my settings sync over, some of the "we've already shown the user the popup" stuff might not be (or maybe i need to sync more settings). I just am not a big fan of pop-up notifications in general so turning them off is the first thing I do when I can. Other minor stuff like that (none of this is at all urgent): - Having an option to disable requiring a confirm for kernel restarts. - Smooth scrolling in the interactive window regardless of the higher setting from vscode / electron that disables smooth scrolling. - Don't scroll on output in the interactive window unless it's currently scrolled to the bottom (Allows reading things at the top while more results scroll in w/o having to fight the scrollbar) - A bit better support for jupyter magics / builtins without displaying errors (e.g. things like %%html or %%javascript or !ls or 'display(dataframe)' all show errors) In terms of why I like the split display: I think it's more conducive to writing re-usable code than Jupyter and I can re-read things in the order that I ran them. It also keeps the code closer to together so I don't have to jump over a bunch of intermediate results when I go between different area of code. Thanks for making the interactive window, it's been a real pleasure so far and overall I really powerful, I wish it was in every language!
- localhost 7y ago
  Thanks! I'll definitely chat with the VS Code folks about whether we can have a unified solution to the notification problem. Would you mind opening a set of Github issues so that we can get your suggestions onto our backlog? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues Interesting that you would like to have the extension run in more than one language. What other languages do you use regularly where you'd get a benefit from the interactive window? Thx!

benjaminjackman 7y ago

Let me just say I didn't mean to come across as overly negative, I think everyone working on the extension has done a fantastic job, it's a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things I use multiple different machines so while my settings sync over, some of the "we've already shown the user the popup" stuff might not be (or maybe i need to sync more settings). I just am not a big fan of pop-up notifications in general so turning them off is the first thing I do when I can. Other minor stuff like that (none of this is at all urgent): - Having an option to disable requiring a confirm for kernel restarts. - Smooth scrolling in the interactive window regardless of the higher setting from vscode / electron that disables smooth scrolling. - Don't scroll on output in the interactive window unless it's currently scrolled to the bottom (Allows reading things at the top while more results scroll in w/o having to fight the scrollbar) - A bit better support for jupyter magics / builtins without displaying errors (e.g. things like %%html or %%javascript or !ls or 'display(dataframe)' all show errors) In terms of why I like the split display: I think it's more conducive to writing re-usable code than Jupyter and I can re-read things in the order that I ran them. It also keeps the code closer to together so I don't have to jump over a bunch of intermediate results when I go between different area of code. Thanks for making the interactive window, it's been a real pleasure so far and overall I really powerful, I wish it was in every language!

localhost 7y ago
Thanks! I'll definitely chat with the VS Code folks about whether we can have a unified solution to the notification problem. Would you mind opening a set of Github issues so that we can get your suggestions onto our backlog? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues Interesting that you would like to have the extension run in more than one language. What other languages do you use regularly where you'd get a benefit from the interactive window? Thx!