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"norun" cell metadata #20
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I think this is a reasonable candidate for a tag. We've been talking about using a list of tags for some simple metadata markers, and this seems like a good one. cc @ellisonbg |
Yes, tags are potentially very useful. e.g. I'd also like to use a |
(There's also the question of whether the cell metadata tags should be sent to the kernel as part of the |
I've closed my PR that attempted to standardize tags and description: #134 If anyone wants to have at it, feel free. |
It occurred to me that it would be useful to have a
norun
code-cell metadata flag, that used to:%run
magic in IPython.I have been thinking about literate programming styles based on the notebook format, which is why I made NBInclude so that notebooks can be first-class collections of Julia code (as an alternative/supplement to
.jl
files). If I'm developing code in a notebook, I might want runnable code examples and tests mixed with the "production" code, but I wouldn't want those snippets to be executed along with the rest of the file when I include the file elsewhere.The UI in the notebook could be a checkable "Skip Cell in Run All" menu item in the
Cell
menu, and perhaps thenorun
cells could be displayed slightly differently, e.g. with a darker-gray background.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: