VSCode browser preview resets URL after reload

[m-guggenmos]

Description

I am playing around with revealjs and hit the following problem: when using the internal VSCode live preview, the URL is correctly updated with the anchor (#xyz) for the current slide. However, when I make a change to a qmd file, the built-in browser reloads to the initial value of the URL and I have to click back to the slide. The same happens, when I click the reload button of the browser. This does only happen in the built-in VSCode browser and not in external browsers. This makes working with the build-in browser very uncomfortable.

Any ideas or what would be the best place to look for help with this issue?

This is on a Ubuntu Linux system.

[mcanouil]

Would you be able to share some steps to reproduce the issue you are describing?

[m-guggenmos]

Sure.

_quarto.yml

project:
  output-dir: _slides
  render:
    - test.qmd

title: "Title"
author: "John Doe"

format: revealjs

test.qmd

## Heading

Text

## Heading2

Text

## Heading3

Text

## Heading4

Text

Quarto settings:
Quarto > Render: Preview Type: internal

1. Start preview, e.g. by clicking "Render" in VSCode on the test.qmd file.
2. Navigate to Heading4 (-> the URL correctly updates to test.html#/heading4)
3. Make a change to the text in test.qmd under ## Heading4. Save file.
4. The website preview refreshes. However, for me, it jumps back to the title page (the URL also changes to the title page's URL/anchor) and I can't live monitor the changes I have made to the current slide with Heading4. I remember that sometimes it also jumped back to the previous slide, but I can't reproduce this atm.

[mcanouil]

I don't use "render on save" as you seems to do.

Anyway, I suggest you open an issue on the Quarto VSCode extension repository, see https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto/issues.

[m-guggenmos]

This issue is independent of "render on save" and is also present when just manually reloading the Quarto Preview browser. I'll open an issue.

[m-guggenmos]

https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto/issues/225