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Consistency needed CLI/WEB: "code cell" or "code chunk"?

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Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/6151

Originally posted by mine-cetinkaya-rundel July 9, 2023
Quarto documentation refers to both "code chunks" and "code cells". Quarto internals generally refer to code cells. It would be good if we could settle on a term and use it, but this might be impossible. I still wanted to record this discussion here, in case others have thoughts and want to chime in.

Some points to keep in mind:


Originally posted by mcanouil July 15, 2023
Few statistics:

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Start by reviewing the terminology discussion in issue #6220 and the reported occurrences in the quarto-web and quarto-cli repositories. Establish whether one term can be selected across the documentation and internals, then update the affected references consistently and verify that no relevant usage was missed.

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Documentation
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