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Support for cell separators '#%%' #340

Open 01tot10 opened 2 years ago

01tot10 commented 2 years ago

Summary

I'm used to dividing up my Python source files into cells, divided by separators #%%. These usually render nicely in common IDEs, like Spyder and VSCode. At the moment, cell separators are not highlighted by language-atom. I'm wondering would it make sense to add them?

Motivation

Cell separators give visual cues for better navigation of your source files, making editing just ever so slightly nicer.

Describe alternatives you've considered

An alternative for providing cell support would be installing a fully-fledged IDE on top of Atom, like Hydrogen. That solution brings lot's of overhead, if you only want to add cell highlighting.

Additional context

A bunch of lines of code, as rendered in Spyder Screenshot from 2022-06-29 10-57-29 A bunch of lines of code, as rendered in Atom Screenshot from 2022-06-29 10-57-53

Alexey-T commented 2 years ago

what do you suggest to render for such separator? horizontal line above/below the separator?

01tot10 commented 2 years ago

Hey @Alexey-T! Yes, that would be the most logical thing IMO (horizontal line above,) and it would be canonical to what I've seen in IDEs!

ThatXliner commented 2 years ago

I’ve never seen that before. Cool idea but I think some init script hacking might just do the trick.

01tot10 commented 2 years ago

... Cool idea but I think some init script hacking might just do the trick.

A-ha! That's something I haven't considered. Also wouldn't know what init script hacking would mean in this case, but I'll memorize that!

ThatXliner commented 2 years ago

https://flight-manual.atom.io/hacking-atom/sections/the-init-file