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Right, this notebook or worksheet style interface isn't meant to be a text editor tho', or to develop software it's meant to interactively help you write a paper or a report. We had this in MathCAD in the '90s, where it used MS Word as it's "editor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcad

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[msft] Yep. Check out Jupyter Lab which tries address other scenarios. A lightweight IDE with notebook, file, editor, windowing support:

https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab

And btw, it's worth mentioning that in JupyterLab, we just merged a PR that will make embedding the Monaco editor (the editing component of VS code) much easier: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/pull/1140.

With that in, now the Monaco integration is being worked on: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/pull/1382.

We all want stronger editing capabilities, but it doesn't make sense for the Jupyter team to get into the business of writing text editors (plenty of better folks doing a great job on that already). So we're just trying to make it easier to integrate other text editors into the everyday workflow.

[msft] Well, this is an honor - the creator of Jupyter commenting on this thread & not just any comment... but about embedding the Visual Studio Code editor in Jupyter Lab :).

Thanks Fernando, Brian, Min & team for everything you've done with Jupyter. Looking fwd to using Jlab soon!

+1 to the team that's been doing a phenomenal job on the project... These days I'm just an email answering machine :)

But yes, JLab is shaping up quite nicely, opening up a lot of interesting possibilities. For advanced users/early adopters I think it's time to start playing with it (and filing issues for anything that's broken/sub-optimal, we really want to provide a great user experience with it once we hit 1.0).

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