Notebook: Auto-closing brackets/parentheses

[bnaul]

Per this question, I have been using the following in ~/.jupyter/custom/custom.js to disable auto-closing parentheses:

require(['notebook/js/codecell'], function (codecell) {
      codecell.CodeCell.options_default.cm_config.autoCloseBrackets = false;
})

Under notebook==4.2.0 this works, but upgrading to 5.0.0.dev0 the default behavior is back. Is this a bug, or just a change in the way that this parameter is configured?

[takluyver]

@Carreau I think you recently changed how cells use the frontend config. Can you work out how to set something like this?

[Carreau]

@Carreau I think you recently changed how cells use the frontend config. Can you work out how to set something like this?

I haven't merged it yet, but will investigate.

[Carreau]

Ok, so that will be really hard to fix.

It's due to webpack. The module instance you get by require() in the custom JS is actually a completely different one that the one which is bundled by webpack.

That is to say you actually have 2 complete version of CodeCell that are in the minified files....

[rainwoodman]

I suggest adding a maintained configuration file parameter for users who find this completion behavior strange to turn it off.

While a great feature for slow typists to save some keystrokes, the latent surprise factor of this feature really clogs the mind-keyboard unity of fast typists.

[takluyver]

We're planning to back away from webpack, so the custom.js snippet above will hopefully start working again.