REditorSupport / REditorSupport/vscode-R
Create a fixed Viewer pane instead of spawning new ones
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'd like to be able to wrangle the amount of 'Viewer' tabs that are created. I make a lot of tables with flextable and each time I make one a new Viewer pane is spawned.
Describe the solution you'd like
Ideally, I would be able to have one Viewer pane that gets updated - similar to how the R Plot pane works. If that's not possible, then it'd be good to be able to define which group new Viewers get opened in.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I'm not aware of any other alternatives to this - I've looked around the settings and I can't seem to find anything that controls this.
Additional context
None - I'm happy to work on this as well, if you could point me in the right direction.
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Research direction
Start by locating the extension's Viewer pane handling and comparing it with the R Plot pane behavior. Check how Viewer tabs are created and grouped in VS Code. Done means repeated flextable output updates one fixed Viewer pane, or provides a supported way to choose the group for new Viewers.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r, typescript, vscode
- Domain
- desktop, devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100