I want to make autocompletions available when typing in markdown cells, but it currently only works in python cells. Is there any way to enable autocompletions in markdown cells through a typescript extension? I looked at the completer documentation and it has a ‘register’ function, but it isn’t clear if that registers cell types for autocompletion.
Hi @jaysun_n, as you mention, autocompletion in notebooks is only available for code cells. See completer-extension.
You might create an extension for autocompletion in markdown cells by copying the @jupyterlab/completer-extension:notebooks plugin and adapt it for markdown.
To adapt the plugging, you need to change this line to active your completer only in markdown cells, create a custom connector for markdown items and register it here.
If you create this extension, maybe you will need to open a PR to JupyterLab to make sure that here and here, the completer-extension only registers a completer when the editor is a code cell, otherwise markdown cells will have two completers.
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Additionally, we’re interested in adding this, backed by an appropriate language server for jupyterlab-lsp, such that one would get autocompletion, linting, jump-to-definition, etc. as well as the above for inline code cells, $LaTeX$, etc.
The “appropriate language server” part is a bit tenuous, as the one we currently support is nodejs-based, and has some pretty specific requirements to get e.g. spell checking, etc. Some future work would re-purpose the myst-parser (which critically can be made to expose line/col numbers) with pygls.
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I am also interested in the completer for markdown cells. Can anybody share an example on how to enable it?
In the context of jupyterlab-lsp, this will be possible after a compatible release comes out for JupyterLab 4.x (currently in alpha).
For a more recent discussion:
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