Future Development Ideas

[kpinnipa]

FUTURE FEATURE LIST

• Templated Fields
  Create an interface that allows the use of parameters for code snippets. This will allow users to pass arguments into their snippets when inserting a snippet into their notebooks.

• Tab Completion
  Implement a tab completion feature that tracks patterns in a users code and recommends potential code snippets that could finishes statements and definitions if the tab key is pressed. Potential idea to work with Kite/JupyterLab-lsp team to create this feature.

• Color Code Tags
  Construct a color picking tool that allows for the selection of different colors for the tags in the snippets panel. If this change is implemented, potentially show dots on the actual snippet containers indicating some of the tags associated with the snippet. Attach hover feature to dots that will display the actual names of the tags.

• Multi-cell Saving
  If multiple code cells are saved, create functionality that will maintain the cell structure upon editing and re-insertion into the notebook. This will allow for cells to be manually combined and also run separately if desired.

[MooersLab]

Tab stops at sites of parameters to be edited would be very useful. Tab stops are common in snippet managers for text editors.