Shift-enter should also advance cursor to the next line

[arencambre]

When I hit shift-enter, I am intending to run the current line or selection. I would like for the Python extension to also advance the cursor to the next line.

Advancing the cursor to the next line is just helpful. It is not common that I wish to re-run the current line after pressing shift-enter. More typically, I want to run several lines in a row. Allowing shift-enter makes this more intuitive.

This should also apply even when you are running multiple, selected lines. It will necessarily cause the selection to be un-selected since the cursor will need to move to the line right after the end of the selection. In my experience, it is rare that I would want to manually, repeatedly run multiple, selected lines. Rather, the most common occurrence currently is, after I hit shift-enter, I have to down-arrow through the end of the selection to run the next desired line. Because the selection disappeared as soon as I hit down-arrow, I lose the obvious, visual reference for end of line, which makes it even harder. If the cursor just went to the first line after the selection, that would be helpful.

RStudio has the same "skip to the next line after shift-enter" behavior. I find it useful.

[karthiknadig]

Thank you for the suggestion! We have marked this issue as "needs decision" to make sure we have a conversation about your idea. We plan to leave this feature request open for at least a month to see how many 👍 votes the opening comment gets to help us make our decision.

[andycraig]

This was one of the requests in #4978. I would love this feature.

[arencambre]

#4798 is also a great idea.

I could see this one being implemented first with #4798 being a follow-on.

[luabud]

Thanks for the suggestion! We talked about it with the team and we have unfortunately decided we will not be moving forward with this idea. We think there isn't an enough widespread need for this to warrant the maintenance cost for the feature.

[anthonykim1]

This is available with new 'Smart Send' Feature #21838
There is also setting to toggle this on/off.

[luabud]

This is the setting btw, "Enable REPL Smart Send"

(or python.REPL.enableREPLSmartSend if you're adding settings to settings.json)