Notebook: Merge cells shortcut

Created on 14 Sep 2015 · 5Comments · Source: jupyter/notebook

Is it only me or the merge cell shortcut Shift+M doesn't work anymore?

I tried on different machines with the version 1.0.0.

Thanks.

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foebu

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I think you mean 1.0 of Jupyter ? (Notebook is 4.0, but details, details)

In 4.0 (notebook) you can use Shift-J/K to select multiple cells and Shift-M will merge all the selected cells.

mergeme

Carreau on 14 Sep 2015

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I think you mean 1.0 of Jupyter ? (Notebook is 4.0, but details, details)

In 4.0 (notebook) you can use Shift-J/K to select multiple cells and Shift-M will merge all the selected cells.

mergeme

Carreau on 14 Sep 2015

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Good to know, I also though it was a bug. @Carreu is there any existing documentation for the notebook UI?

tritemio on 21 Sep 2015

@Carreau, as a user I totally missed this because I didn't realize the shortcut help dialog in the notebook has an hidden scrollbar showing more shortcuts.

tritemio on 21 Sep 2015

Is there a way we can make Shift-M still work like it used to? I don't see why disabling it completely unless the user presses Shift-J/K is a good interface. If there's only one cell selected, why not do what it always used to do (merge below)?

The reason I find it not intuitive is that the 'extend cell selection above/below' hotkey isn't really an option an user would look for if they didn't know what it did beforehand, especially since it's not part of any menu items either.