VSCode: Set a main/primary doc for render/preview

[stefanbringuier]

Is there a way to set a main/primary .qmd file to be used when using the quarto render/preview function in VSCode? For example, say I have the main document, presentation.qmd , which has the following:

---
title: "A Presentation"
date-format: short
bibliography: _references/references.bib

format:
    revealjs:
         output: true
         reference-location: document

from: markdown+emoji
jupyter: julia-1.8
---

{{< slides/_intro.qmd >}}

{{< slides/_details.qmd >}}

...

If I'm editing slides/_details.qmd and want to preview the presentation, how can I do this without having to switch back¹ to presentation.qmd ? For example, the LaTeX Workshop extension for VSCode has a setting to do this.

Footnotes

1. If I preview/render slides/_details.qmd it produces a single default html page, which is not what I want. ↩

[mcanouil]

For now it's not possible and I believe that is also the case for RStudio.

This feature would require to perform static code analysis to guess which document is the parent and would also require to watch all children documents which then might become a performance issue.

[stefanbringuier]

For now it's not possible and I believe that is also the case for RStudio.

This feature would require to perform static code analysis to guess which document is the parent and would also require to watch all children documents which then might become a performance issue.

I see, thanks for the insight.

[mcanouil]

It's something that could be interesting to think more about and test in the future.