Jupyterlab: Command Palette

[t-makaro]

Jupyter Notebook has a command palette (spelt wrong in the notebook but it's there) opened with the keyboard shortcut ctrl+shift+p, and so does vs code. I can't seem to find one in jupyter lab (ctrl+shift+p just opens an in-private tab in MS edge and the print menu in chrome).

[blink1073]

Hi @t-makaro, the command palette is one of the left tab items (Commands), and is available as Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + C. We chose that combination to avoid conflicting with the private browser tab shortcut.

[t-makaro]

Ah. Thank you. I was expecting something that looks more like the notebook/vs code command palette. No wonder I didn't find it. I actually didn't know that the notebook had a command palette until I went looking for it after using vs code despite having used the notebook for a couple years. Mouse hovering over the tab to display the shortcut might be a good way to make that shortcut more discoverable.

[dhirschfeld]

On the topic of dicoverability it might be useful when no tabs are open to display some of the most useful shortcuts similar to how VSCode does it:

...especially since Ctrl-Shift-P doesn't open the Command Palette like it does in other editors.