Feature request: preview only current slide?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
developer-experience, tooling

Research direction

Start with the VS Code plugin's preview workflow and the distinction between preview and render described in the issue. Determine how slide selection is handled, then define and test a configurable choice between the current slide, adjacent slides, and the whole presentation; done means previewing avoids rendering unrelated slides while full render remains available.

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Description

When preparing a presentation, a simple (and, I assume, rather typical) workflow would be something like:

1- Edit a slide
2- Test (ie preview its animations, check errors, layout, etc.)
3- Go to the next/previous slide, to check the transitions
4- Advance to a new slide and start again at 1-

When the presentation has several slides (eg. 70), the preview becomes a real bottleneck in terms of time because in order to see the current slide you ask quarto to render all the presentation. (here I am assuming that the time it takes to render a presentation of 87 slides is much longer than the time it takes to render 1-3 slides, and the more slides the longer it takes. If this assumption is wrong then this message can be disregarded).

Also, when you have already finished all the previous slides, you normally don't really intend to see them again every time you save (to inspect the current slide). Therefore it would help a lot if the user could chose if she/he wants to render only the current slide or the whole presentation*

Is there a way to configure the VSC plugin to only render the current (or say, the previous + the current + the next) slide only?
If not, would it make sense to turn this into a feature request?

  • Actually, since preview is named as just a preview, I would expect that it shows only what you're doing now and it's optimized for speed (ideally, real-time). And let render do the more serious, complete job.

Thanks so much for this great software.

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