Allow binding external tools to hotkeys

[kbauer]

Issue Report Checklist

Not really applicable, because it is an enhancement request. The relevant subset:

• [x] Searched the issues page for similar reports
• [x] Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
• [x] Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
• [x] Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

In many cases it would be useful to run custom shell commands from within the IDE: Examples include:

• Static code analysis tools, that are not directly supported
• importmagic or similar refactoring tools
• Invoking build systems
• Invoking version control tools (e.g. git gui).

In order to be useful, such a feature would need to support at least:

• Binding to hotkeys and presence in the menu-bar.
• Display of the output in a pane, preferably separate from the regular Console pane.
• Passing information about the invocation context (such as the path of the active file in the editor) to the command.

Desirable additional features include:

• Turning common file/line-number patterns into clickable links, e.g. compiler-warning style lines of the form relative/path/to/file.py:123: message.
• Declare, that the file should be saved before invoking the command.
• Declare, that the command is expected to change files opened in the editor, and automatically reload them after the command finishes.
• Declare, that the command is interactive, and automatically focus the command pane.
• Declare that the command should continue running in the background, even if new commands are executed (e.g. git gui).

Currently the closest feature is invoking the iPython magic syntax ! command in the ipython shell, but the iPython shell may be set to a working directory other than the source code directory, and typing out long commands repeatedly makes them less useful.

Versions

Python 3.9.4 64-bit | Qt 5.9.7 | PyQt5 5.9.2 | Linux 4.12.14-lp151.28.91-default

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0          :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0               :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0           :  1.6.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0          :  1.7.3 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111   :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2          :  3.0.2 (OK)
IPython >=7.6.0               :  7.23.1 (OK)
jedi =0.17.2                  :  0.17.2 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0            :  3.2.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0              :  23.0.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0               :  6.0.7 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0              :  1.1.0 (OK)
parso =0.7.0                  :  0.7.0 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0               :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4             :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                  :  5.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                :  2.9.0 (OK)
pylint >=1.0                  :  2.7.2 (OK)
pyls >=0.36.2;<1.0.0          :  0.36.2 (OK)
pyls_black >=0.4.6            :  0.4.6 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.3.2;<0.4.0    :  0.3.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle =3.0.2             :  3.0.2 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.1.10            :  0.2.0 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.0.2             :  1.0.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.1.0             :  5.1.0 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                  :  1.9.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.8.3                 :  0.9.7 (OK)
setuptools >=39.0.0           :  49.6.0.post20210108 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                :  4.0.1 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.0.2;<2.1.0 :  2.0.3 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0          :  4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1           :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3;<2.0.0      :  1.0.2 (OK)
xdg >=0.26                    :  0.26 (OK)
zmq >=17                      :  22.0.3 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                 :  None (NOK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0            :  None (NOK)
numpy >=1.7                   :  None (NOK)
pandas >=1.1.1                :  None (NOK)
scipy >=0.17.0                :  None (NOK)
sympy >=0.7.3                 :  None (NOK)

[andfoy]

Hi @kbauer, thanks for the suggestion! This will be taken into account in the near future when Spyder-Terminal is migrated to allow console program execution from the editor. Right now, the Spyder team is focusing in stabilizing all the plugins after the Spyder 5 release, however, we will come back to this feature request later on.

[ccordoba12]

As @andfoy said, I think this is a feature request for spyder-terminal, i.e. adding buttons or menu entries that allow bash/batch scripts to be executed directly there.

Therefore, I'm going to be move this issue to that repo.