Spyder: Run all cells above current cell?

Created on 13 Sep 2019 · 3Comments · Source: spyder-ide/spyder

I would like to be able to run all the cells above the current cell, like in Jupyter. I know I can by doing shift-enter many times, or highlighting all the code manually, but this can be time consuming.

I think this would be a nice feature.

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EricThomson

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I think this would be a nice feature.

I think this should be easy enough to implement after #9725 is implemented.

For reference Jupyter Notebook has these options in a run menu associated with each cell.

Run and Select Below
Run and Insert Below
Run All
Run All Above
Run All Below

We could add some or all of these to the run menu in Spyder.

It should be possible to add these options to a context menu when a cell is clicked in the outliner or a cell heading in the editor(this might be more tricky)

bcolsen on 13 Sep 2019

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I think this would be a nice feature.

I think this should be easy enough to implement after #9725 is implemented.

For reference Jupyter Notebook has these options in a run menu associated with each cell.

Run and Select Below
Run and Insert Below
Run All
Run All Above
Run All Below

We could add some or all of these to the run menu in Spyder.

It should be possible to add these options to a context menu when a cell is clicked in the outliner or a cell heading in the editor(this might be more tricky)

bcolsen on 13 Sep 2019

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It should be possible to add these options to a context menu when a cell is clicked in the outliner or a cell heading in the editor(this might be more tricky)

Well we know when we are inside a cell, so that should not be that tricky. I guess we could show it whenever the user clicks inside a cell ?

goanpeca on 13 Sep 2019

@EricThomson, thanks for opening the issue! If this is easy enough (as @bcolsen thinks) we could add this for 4.1. If not, I'm afraid it'll have to wait until Spyder 5 (to be released next year).