Better popup of output buffers

[Yevgnen]

Output buffers like *jupyter-error* or *jupyter-output* will popup based on the visibility of the REPL at the moment of jupyter-repl-* commands are executed, but not the current visibility of REPL. It will be a bit redundant to show the output buffers when one has already switched to the REPL buffer later after the eval commands are executed. That usually happens when one executed long run commands.

[nnicandro]

Can you give a procedure that shows what you are talking about?

When I

1. Call jupyter-repl-scratch-buffer from within a REPL buffer
2. Type print("This is a message") in the scratch buffer.
3. Press C-c C-c on the line just typed

I get a *jupyter-output* buffer each time regardless of the visibility of the REPL buffer.

[Yevgnen]

I get a jupyter-output buffer each time regardless of the visibility of the REPL buffer.

That's the 'issue'...

When I sumit/evaluate some pyspark jobs with the REPL buffer hidden, the job takes some time to finish and pyspark keep printing the progress bar every some seconds(then I delete that window) and thus the output buffer is popup even I make the REPL buffer visible later after submited the job. So I can see the output from both REPL buffer and the jupyter-* buffers.

I personally think it would be better to popup based on the current visibility of the REPL buffer.

[k-jell]

Any news on this or maybe a workaround/hints how to achieve that? I would also find it useful to have some more control over the popup / output buffers.

The problem: Especially when I have limited screen size, I tend to close the popup windows which results in a new popup every time I run the code. But what is even more of a problem for me is, that the display buffer is always opening after the output buffer, so I have to close that buffer to actually see the output.

Some ideas:

• It would be enough for me to get all the output in the REPL window as long as it is visible somewhere (even if it is not visible that would be fine), like described here: https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter/issues/403. However I would not want to have the code echoed to the REPL. So if there is any way to turn that off, I would be happy. So just like @Yevgnen suggested I guess:

  I personally think it would be better to popup based on the current visibility of the REPL buffer.

• If the output or display buffers are open in another frame (on another screen), the popups shouldn't popup on the other frame, where I execute the code, but just reuse the buffers that are already open. That would also be a suitable solution for me, but unfortunately right now the buffers will also popup on the "main" frame, where I have my code buffer.
• Another idea that would probably solve my issues is making it possible to send outputs to the buffers in the background without them popping up at all. Then I could evaluate code in my code buffer and just switch to the output buffers whenever I want to see some output.