how-to installation / testing

[epifanio]

Hi, is there any doc/readme I can have a look at, to learn how to install and use this plugin? thanks!

[ccordoba12]

Right now this is very sketchy implementation of what we have in mind for a notebook integration within Spyder. It's usable but we don't think it's ready for public consumption yet.

However, we're working to have it ready in a month or month and a half at most. Please be patient :-)

[epifanio]

Thanks @ccordoba12 looking fwd for it. Any pointer on how to develop/install/deploy spyder's plugins (spyder plugin api?) will be great. I saw the cooky-cutter repo .. but still confuse on how to test it out.

[dalthviz]

@ccordoba12 should we improve in some way the README.md to include something more to test in development the plugin or we can close this one?

[jitseniesen]

Earlier this week I talked to somebody who was trying out the plugin, and their comments were:

• It is not clear how to use the plugin. They tried to open an IPython notebook (.ipynb file) with File > Open but that does not work? So a short "How to use" section may be useful
• It is not clear how to contact somebody. Not everybody is familiar with Github!

[dalthviz]

Thanks for the feedback @jitseniesen :), maybe we could put the info of the welcome tab in the "How to use" section?:

With the contact somebody, should we put the spyder group/forum link in the readme https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/spyderlib/topics ?

Also, should we create an action in the File menu something like Open in the notebook to make a distinction between the regular open of a file and opening a notebook?

[jitseniesen]

maybe we could put the info of the welcome tab in the "How to use" section?

Are you referring to the welcome tab in the Notebook pane? The problem for this user was that they did not notice the Notebook pane, so I don't think that will help. Maybe add a sentence to the readme on where to find the Notebook pane?

With the contact somebody, should we put the spyder group/forum link in the readme

Yes, I think that's helpful

Also, should we create an action in the File menu something like Open in the notebook to make a distinction between the regular open of a file and opening a notebook?

Maybe, but I think it would be better to have File > Open decide to open notebook files in the notebook plugin and all other files in the editor plugin; cf. #89: "Right now that requires changes to Spyder itself, while it'd be better for this plugin to register a handler with the Spyder Open action. We should go with the first approach in Spyder 3, but we'd like to implement the second one in Spyder 4."

[CoderCoderCoder]

I just found and installed this plugin, but even though I can now open Jupyter files, they are shown in plain text and there is no "Editor / Notebook" switch. Any hints how to get it working? Thanks!!

[dalthviz]

Hi @CoderCoderCoder could you see if the notebook is checked in the View>Panes menu?

[goanpeca]

I reopened this, since @dalthviz mentioned this on another issues.

@spyder-ide/core-developers maybe we should really use the normal open dialog and if the plugin is installed, we should be able (via some api) to ask the user if they want to open as text or as a notebook. This would really aviod having all this duplicates. We could add an extra thing on the open dialog (but this would require creating a custom Open dialog for each OS) so that we have a checkbox or something that reads, open as text, so that the default is to open as a notebook.

[akrsrivastava]

To create a new notebook, something along the lines of File--> New notebook will be helpful . Saw similar functionality on Pycharm.

[ccordoba12]

@goanpeca, this is already closed. Please open a new issue to discuss the approach you propose.