How to limit Jupyter Notebook cell height for all outputs in VS Code?

[pehkawn]

Sometimes the output from a code cell will be very large, which makes it impractical to display the entire output. According to this answer, I tried changing the setting "Notebook>Output: Text Line Limit" ("notebook.output.textLineLimit": 5). However, this seems to only limit the cell size of a pure text based output, and not outputs such as matrices, dataframes or other spreadsheet-like outputs (e.g. from the `View() function in R.)

(NOTE: The cell code is written in R, although I wouldn't presume this to be relevant for this particular issue.)

Example setting:

GUI

(Alternatively) settings.json:

"notebook.output.scrolling": true
"notebook.output.textLineLimit": 5

Example outputs:

Text output

Here the cell is limited to 5 lines, with a vertical scroll bar, as defined in the settings:

..but not for matrices, dataframes and spreadsheet-like objects.

Dataframe

Output from View()

My question therefore is:

Is it possible to limit cell height for other outputs than text?

[DonJayamanne]

@amunger /cc

[amunger]

You are correct in that those settings are only supported for text stream outputs, not plaintext or HTML. I've created microsoft/vscode#190426 to track adding that feature.

[pehkawn]

Glad to hear it. =)