can you open a notebook without starting a server?

[danielkrajnik]

Is there a read-only mode? Something just to inspect contents of the notebook - just render the cells in the buffer? Or is that just not how ipython notebooks work?

Servers take time to start and require you to server the entire directory rather than just a file.

[dickmao]

What you describe would require research and programming far beyond EIN's current sunset status.

[danielkrajnik]

Sorry, maybe I haven't described this properly. I'm just trying to view .ipynb notebook file. Currently, it requires you to switch to ein-mode, start a server (C-c C-o), go through a pop-up menu to select the file you've already opened and then maxmize that buffer. If it's a larger directory it may crash so you have to reopen it... vscode on the other hand opens it straight away in a second.

I hoped that you could just preview it in a single or lesser amount of steps? I'm new to this extension, so perhaps someone could please suggest a better workflow? I know there are a lot of variables in configuration (I'm using doom emacs), but could someone at least please confirm that I must be doing something wrong and this doesn't have to be so complicated?

Why does it have to be so complicated?