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Provide affordance for saving (and loading?) history
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Description
RStudio's History pane includes gestures for saving and loading history (they are the first two icons):
Positron's does not.
RStudio's feature is largely a UI on top of https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/savehistory.html.
It'd be nice to offer a way to export the history to a file for later use or even for loading into a Positron session on a different machine or a different project.
originally via: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/8328
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked R savehistory documentation and compare the existing Positron History pane with the RStudio gestures shown in the issue. Define the save and load affordances, then consider the work complete when history can be exported and loaded into another Positron session or project.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- r, typescript
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100