Support Alt+Enter Keyboard Shortcut

[jaredlander]

Positron Version:

Positron Version: 2024.03.0 (system setup) build 2024.03.0-6584
Code - OSS Version: 1.87.0
Commit: fe73a9a
Date: 2024-04-01T03:18:17.396Z
Electron: 27.3.2
Chromium: 118.0.5993.159
Node.js: 18.17.1
V8: 11.8.172.18-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Put cursor on a line of code
2. Press Alt+Enter

What did you expect to happen?

In RStudio this sends a line of code without the cursor moving to the next line (as Ctrl+Enter does). In Positron, nothing happened.

I'm sure I can edit the shortcuts myself, but since this is built in to RStudio I think users would expect it to be here as well.

Were there any error messages in the output or Developer Tools console?

None

[juliasilge]

As of today, we don't expose a way to control whether the cursor moves to the next line or not while executing code, so this isn't something that you can set up your own keybinding for right now. I will move this to our main repo as a feature request.

Thanks for the feedback! 🙌

[juliasilge]

In registerPositronConsoleActions() we create the action for executing code:

positron/src/vs/workbench/contrib/positronConsole/browser/positronConsoleActions.ts

Line 254 in 5ab781f

id: PositronConsoleCommandId.ExecuteCode,

That action does a lot of work to move to the appropriate next line of code, but we could break that action up into two pieces, one of which is just executing the current statement and not computing newPosition. We can then bind that to Alt+Enter.

[Btibert3]

I recently asked this question and was directed to this chain so adding my +1 here as a feature request. The ability to jump ahead is fantastic, but there are situations where its favorable to run the current line and keep focus. My use case is for my class discussions where we write code together to learn.

Currently, I provide students with a templated script that we will use in class, and when its not a great experience to always skip to the end of the script and have to scroll back, especially for students learning to code.

The workaround at the moment is to select the snippets to run and use Command+ return (on a Mac). I will coach around it for now but it would be nice to have control on how code execution behaves.