Hi! I work in medical imaging and computational biomechanics. I've been a long-time user of Matlab and have used Spyder in the past when needing Python. I was very excited to find Positron, as Spyder has fallen behind quite a bit in terms of modern IDE features. VS Code has always been intriguing, but the lack of first-class data interactivity always prevented me from adopting it as my main IDE. Positron is the perfect combination of the aforementioned environments. Thanks for creating it!
There's a few small quality-of-life features I've seen in either Matlab or Spyder and I was wondering if they are available in Positron.
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Data pop-out window behavior: in Positron, if a variable is already open in a pop-out window of the Data Explorer (say, shot_list in the below image), then I open another variable (df), that variable will open in a completely separate window. Is there an option to have the additional variable open in the same window as existing variable? Apologies for not including a screenshot, the new user classification prevented me from attaching another image.
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Data frame coloring: Spyder's variable viewer colors numeric data in data frames using a heat map according to the column values (see below screenshot). This makes it very easy to scan data, get a feel for trends, identify missing values (NaN are not included in the heatmap), etc. Is there an option like this in Positron?
Please let me know if anything wasn't clear. Many thanks again for all your work in developing a solid product!