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Update docs to reference notebook sessions#358

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@dhruvisompura dhruvisompura commented May 7, 2026

Updates the docs to reflect the notebook session work in the interpreter picker from posit-dev/positron#11861. Closes posit-dev/positron#12384.

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Restructured managing-interpreters.qmd into three sections:

  • Interpreter sessions (session type agnostic): active session, language features, status, view running, change active.
  • Console sessions: create, documents in editor pane, delete, restart, rename, view metadata.
  • Notebook sessions: links out to the notebooks docs page that covers notebook session specific info in more detail

Updated positron-notebook-editor.qmd to talk about notebook sessions in the interpreter picker. Removed the note about matching the console session shown in the interpreter picker to the notebook session.

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@dhruvisompura dhruvisompura marked this pull request as ready for review May 8, 2026 22:27
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Thank you! 🚀

This is ready to merge after those suggested changes.

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You can open an existing connection that you created from Python or R from the [**Variables** pane](variables-pane.qmd):

![Variables pane showing a connection object](images/connections-pane-variables-pane.png){fig-alt="Variables pane showing a conn variable with sqlite3.Connection type and a database icon button highlighted with an orange circle."}
![Variables pane showing a connection object](images/connections-pane-variables-pane.png){fig-alt="Variables pane showing a conn variable with sqlite3.Connection type and a database icon button highlighted with a red square."}
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This is VERY LARGE now. Can we use width=300 or similar to size it better on the page?

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done!

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This is fine for now but when we script up these screenshots using Playwright, let's not use the crazy scoped R assignment operator here 🙅🏻‍♀️

Related to posit-dev/positron#13381
cc @midleman

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This is easy to fix - I'll get this updated. I had claude re-create the file but I didn't catch the assignment operators 😅

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This one we do need to change; it should say "Vector" and not "Array" there on line 9.

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done! Thanks for catching that

Co-authored-by: Julia Silge <julia.silge@gmail.com>
@dhruvisompura dhruvisompura merged commit 84075bd into main May 11, 2026
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