Running a cell moves focus in Jupyter Notebook

[rohitsathish]

Issue Type: Bug

Running a cell in jupyter notebooks moves the focus to the top of cell.

Expected behaviour: don't move focus on running a cell.

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.58.0-insider (3caebff, 2021-06-24T05:13:30.907Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19041
Restricted Mode: No

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[vscodebot]

(Experimental duplicate detection)
Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• VS Code native notebook accessibility improvement (#111255)
• Cell tabs stops and keyboard navigation issues (#119727)
• Pressing esc with a notebook cell in command mode should preserve current cell selection (#121129)
• Notebook navigation flow (#110962)
• Jupyter notebook unusable (#123537)

[kevinsu1015]

#127214 #127207

[rebornix]

Running a cell in jupyter notebooks moves the focus to the top of cell

@rohitsathish can you elaborate a bit more on? A screen recording can help a lot.

[rohitsathish]

@rebornix Sure, you can check out the behaviour in this screencast. I'm at the bottom of a long cell and run the cell, after its complete it shifts the focus to the top of the cell. I can confirm that it occurs both when running the cell with the 'run' button next to the cell and while using the ctrl + enter shortcut.

vscode.runing.cell.moves.focus.mp4

[pbotros]

Can confirm this - to add, this behavior is very annoying particularly when (a) a bunch of cells have been queued for execution, and so each cell's completion moves the UI unpredictably, and/or (b) a cell takes a non-trivial amount of time to execute, so I would want to start editing other cells while it's executing, but when the cell finishes, it moves focus away from my currently-editing cell. Thanks!

[WLDCH]

Can confirm too, and it's really frustrating.

[pbotros]

@rebornix any updates on this issue? Doesn't seem like it should have the "needs more info" tag at this point. Would love to see progress on this, this is a very annoying regression!

[rebornix]

Thanks the screen recording shared by #127213 (comment) is pretty helpful and I'll polish this experience.

[rebornix]

@pbotros may I ask if you are using the latest Stable or Insiders? I'm currently not able to reproduce this issue

if anyone of you can still reproduce, please provide a code sample and share the keyboard shortcut you use to run the cell, thanks!

[pbotros]

Looks fixed to me now that I'm on latest Insiders (updated from 1.58.0-insider to 1.60.0-Insider). Seems like it's okay from my side to close this out. Thanks!

[Bebotron]

This issue persists for me. Here are my environment details

• VS Code version: 1.58.2
• Jupyter Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2021.8.1054968649
• Python Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2021.8.1105858891
• OS (Windows | Mac | Linux distro) and version: Linux x64 4.15.0-153-generic
• Python and/or Anaconda version: python 3.8.3, conda 4.10.3
• Type of virtual environment used: N/A
• Jupyter server running: Local

And here is a gif of running a dummy matrix algebra cell using Shift+Enter

Initially opened this issue on #130711, found duplicates once it was transferred to this repo.

[pbotros]

@Bebotron see my comment, updating to 1.60.0 worked for me

[Bebotron]

@Bebotron see my comment, updating to 1.60.0 worked for me

Looks like 1.60 is not yet available on stable, so I'll have to be patient (I generally have bad experiences breaking things in insider versions of anything)

[rebornix]

I'll move it to Sept Milestone and close it if @Bebotron confirms it works after we ship Stable. Thank you both for helping out.

[Bebotron]

Will keep and eye out and update! Thanks!

[tanhakabir]

Closing this issue since it seems fixed!