jorgenschaefer
ESS-style send current "chunk" feature implementation
ESS, emacs' R mode (an excellent package, btw), has as default behavior its C-c C-c send all code between the two nearest blank lines before and after point. It has also the nifty feature of flashing a highlight of this code chunk as you press C-c C-c. I can't find an equivalent for elpy. Am I missing something, and if not, is this an interesting feature for the elpy package?
Hello, and thanks for the suggestion! This is one of these things that is useful for Numpy/Scipy users, who use Python interactively a lot, but much less useful for people who use Python more for software development than statistics and interactive work. I'm always torn as to how much to support the former workflow. I can see adding such a command to elpy, but I would not bind it to a key by default, especially not C-c C-c …
Maybe with a prefix arg? C-u C-c C-c. Seems a bit long-winded, though. C-c RET is an option.
I'm happy to implement this and file a pull request, btw. Just let me know your thoughts on bindings and behavior. I like the flashing effect, for example, as well as the automatically navigating to the next code chunk after evaluation.
For normal Python development, I have never really had the need to send individual lines in a file. That's why Elpy's C-c C-c sends the full file if there is no active region.
I can totally see providing a command that users then can bind themselves for this kind of work. I can also see adjusting the C-RET behavior, maybe. Not sure. I do not have the ipython/scipy/numpy interactive use case myself, at all, so I have no idea what would be useful for that.
Likely not too many usecases for a general-purpose python user, but for the scipy/numpy crowd, it's very useful for visualization. You might have a code chunk that generates a graph or chart or whatnot that lives in the same file as a large amount of dataprocessing. You don't want to wait for a minute every time you update a particular graph, nor do you want to generate multiple graphs every time you want to re-visualize a certain one.
I'll likely implement this myself, and file a pull request. If in the meantime you feel it's not suitable for this project, then no hard feelings if you decide to dismiss it :)
maybe late here, but there is a package for that: https://github.com/wavexx/python-x.el
Ah, cool. I ended up implementing this, but was rude and didn't file a pull request. I'll try to get around to that within the next couple of days
@dwcoates are you still planning to file the PR? I would be glad to help with review and testing.
What a blast from the past! I see you are also playing around with MCP, so let Claude do it (also kidding)