posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
UI: `Inspect Element` doesn't work for our Console
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Description
When Toggle Developer Tools is up, pretty much everything in VS Code has an Inspect Element button if you right click on it, but things in our Console don't. This is somewhat frustrating because the Console is the source of a lot of our custom HTML so it is pretty useful to be able to inspect those elements.
Not sure about a milestone here, but this is a "developer workflow" thing so possibly alpha?
https://github.com/rstudio/positron/assets/19150088/68350632-2d34-403a-89d8-a436a4094385
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue identifies the Console and Toggle Developer Tools as the relevant entry points. Start by locating the Console context-menu handling and comparing it with areas of VS Code where Inspect Element is available; done means right-clicking custom HTML in the Console exposes Inspect Element and opens the corresponding inspection view.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100