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Epic: Improve language features in Quarto code cells

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Since Jul 29, 2026.

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Description

Epic to group together issues relating to improving language features in Quarto code cells
https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/12837

Tickets:

[Vdocs] Fix latency with Quarto especially in remote sessions https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto/issues/984
[Vdocs] Fix Python import resolution (root issue likely affects other languages) https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto/issues/1014
[Maybe vdocs] Content of the Outline pane is re-generated every time you switch focus which is slow for the markdown files https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/14512

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