Why does Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K run quarto preview instead of quarto render, as it did with RStudio?

[davidkane9]

I may have this wrong, but:

In RStudio, Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K runs quarto render. This has always seemed like excellent default behavior to me.

In Positron, Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K runs quarto preview.

1. Is there a reason for the switch?

2. If you are looking for feedback, I certainly prefer quarto render as the default behavior, mainly because I teach beginners and they find the preview state to be confusing.

[juliasilge]

This behavior comes from the Quarto extension, but I may not be understanding the difference you are thinking of. The command to render only does that, i.e. generates the new output file, while the command to preview first renders and then shows you that new output file in the Viewer pane.

Are you saying you want a keyboard shortcut that will render your document but will not show you the output visually? Only runs the command to render in the terminal but does not pop up the results for you to see?

[davidkane9]

Ah. I was confused. In Positron, Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K causes the Terminal to take up with the process. In RStudio, the Terminal is free. I thought this was because Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + K was behaving differently. My mistake! I now see that the process in RStudio lives in the Background Jobs panel, doing the same thing that happens in the Terminal in Positron.

Thanks for the answer and apologies for my confusion.

[juliasilge]

No worries! Do be aware that you can open up as many terminals as you want in Positron, so if your terminal is busy rendering your Quarto file but you need a new terminal, you can pop open a new one:

[davidkane9]

Thanks!

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