883275 - Scratchpad needs an execution sections

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools Graveyard :: Scratchpad, defect, P3)

Description

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

It's very common in my experience to execute only some lines of code from scratchpad rather than all. There is execute selection which is what I use all the time, but keep selecting is really, really annoying.

I think there needs to be a notion of execution sections that developer can create and then just have a way to execute only those sections. For example see interactivate http://jeditoolkit.com/interactivate/demo/

It lest you define execution sections via `\n// =>` comment which I find super useful since it's very easy to put these comments in the code buffer and then just execute sections that is currently active (has a cursor in).

Sections should probably be visually indicated as well.

I would also suggest optional live section re-execution that I really enjoy in interactivate & since sections are explicitly separated by comments it's just matter of re-evaluating section source after little inactivity.