Inline Evaluation Question

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Hello,

I am using Julia 1.6.2 in vscode 1.61.2 with Julia Language extension version 1.4.3.

I’ve noticed sometimes on certain lines I get an inline evaluation to the right. But I don’t really understand how to control it or what I am doing, I just experimented around with it. I tried looking for documentation here, but there wasn’t much of a description. I’m not sure what “cell” is referring to since I am just using a normal julia script file, no notebooks or anything fancy.

If I press “Shift + Enter” it appears to run the entire script and then shows the inline evaluation of the last line in the script. If I do “Alt + Enter” and I have a single line highlighted it will show the inline result of that single line, but if I have multiple lines highlighted/selected it only shows the result of the final highlighted line inline.

Does anyone know what is meant by “cell” in the link above?

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Cells are blocks of code delimited by lines starting with ## .

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Also, if you don’t select any part of the code, but just keep the cursor at some point, Alt+Shift Alt+Enter runs the outermost block including that point (may be one line, or multiple lines if there is a loop, a function definition, a begin-end block, etc.

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The biggest non-module top-level block to be precise, I think. Also, the keybinding is Alt-Enter :slight_smile:

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