Feature request: outline

[martindurant]

How difficult would it be to have the selected notebook’s outline appear in the outline pane?

This would be like the table of contents, just the markdown headings within the notebook (which can be found by JS query, I suppose), which also have html tag-links.

There are versions of this functionality around (http://jupyter-contrib-nbextensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/nbextensions/toc2/README.html ; calico-document-tools ) that might make this easier to do.

[ccordoba12]

@goanpeca, @rlaverde, @dalthviz, any thoughts about this one? I don't know how we could achieve it...

[rlaverde]

Outline Explorer uses a dict of OutlineExplorerData objetcs, that is generated by the Syntax Highlighter.

I think we could move that logic out of the syntax highlighter to the Outline Explorer, and define and API, The outline explorer will receive that dict of objects, instead of calling the syntax Highlighter.

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In the spyder-notebook side we will need a parser that create that dict of OutlineExplorerData objects, and then send it to the outline explorer

[goanpeca]

In the spyder-notebook side we will need a parser that create that dict of OutlineExplorerData objects, and then send it to the outline explorer

I can take care of this part if @rlaverde does the OutlineExplorer Refactoring

[martindurant]

we will need a parser

I am sure you can find one ready-made, or call some JS in the frame to find the headings