[Grumbledour]

I think you misunderstood me. My question was not why you would use an external editor (and get all the benefits you provided), but rather, why work back from jupyter to achieve this rather than working forward from simple markdown and allow code blocks to be embedded and run from the editor.

But maybe I am missing some other features than the interface that the ipython kernel provides? I haven't used it much myself, since I found the setup and usage rather complicated, though to be fair, I don't really use python and its ecosystem much.

[mic47]

I would prefer to use editor as yiu describe. but realitybis that jupyter is something lot of people like, find awesone and want to use. this is something that helps someone like me use what other use, but feel less pain. maybe people on future will start migrating out of ui because of stuff like this.