Let me just say I didn't mean to come across as overly negative, I think everyone working on the extension has done a fantastic job, it's a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things I use multiple different machines so while my settings sync over, some of the "we've already shown the user the popup" stuff might not be (or maybe i need to sync more settings). I just am not a big fan of pop-up notifications in general so turning them off is the first thing I do when I can.
Other minor stuff like that (none of this is at all urgent):
- Having an option to disable requiring a confirm for kernel restarts.
- Smooth scrolling in the interactive window regardless of the higher setting from vscode / electron that disables smooth scrolling.
- Don't scroll on output in the interactive window unless it's currently scrolled to the bottom (Allows reading things at the top while more results scroll in w/o having to fight the scrollbar)
- A bit better support for jupyter magics / builtins without displaying errors (e.g. things like %%html or %%javascript or !ls or 'display(dataframe)' all show errors)
In terms of why I like the split display:
I think it's more conducive to writing re-usable code than Jupyter and I can re-read things in the order that I ran them. It also keeps the code closer to together so I don't have to jump over a bunch of intermediate results when I go between different area of code.
Thanks for making the interactive window, it's been a real pleasure so far and overall I really powerful, I wish it was in every language!