how to interrupt & restart kernel, then run 1st cell automatically

[takbal]

Sharing in case somebody else also suffering with this.

I organize my Python notebooks so that the first cell initializes the environment, and imports code from the libraries I am working on. Edits in the libraries are not refreshed in the kernel instance, so I need to restart whenever I modify the code outside the notebook.

This means that, during my work somewhere in the middle of the notebook, I find myself unhealthy times clicking on (optionally) interrupt, restart, then scrolling up to the top - which is painfully slow due to often skipping large figures - click execution on the first cell, then scroll back to the place I was. All extremely annoying. Perhaps the execution group feature in powertoys is intended to fix this, but it seems broken for me, and it is still three button presses.

Spending a day on this, I finally found a workaround keybind, using the seriously under-documented commands of the extension:

{ "key": "ctrl+shift+space", "command": "runCommands", "args": { "commands": [ "jupyter.interruptkernel", "jupyter.restartkernel", { "command": "notebook.cell.execute", "args": { "ranges": [{ "start": 0, "end": 1 }] } } ] }, "when": "notebookEditorFocused" }