Shift enter to empty cell doesn't place the new cell in a visible location on screen

[IanMatthewHuff]

Not 100% sure what's happening here, but it might just be the output arriving and pushing down the focused cell. But it's not a good shift enter experience as my cell focus is on the next cell, but I can't see it on screen at all.

[rchiodo]

This is a VS code core issue.

[roblourens]

This can happen in Jupyter lab too. What happens here is:

1. Insert cell B below and reveal it
2. Clear the output on cell A
3. Insert the output on cell A, since it is visible and changing its height, we maintain its scroll position
4. Now cell B is pushed out of the viewport

I think in this scenario it is by design. My understanding of what happens in shift+enter is that the focus is really still on cell A. But I don't understand why people want it to work that way.

[rebornix]

There is another request microsoft/vscode-jupyter#5186 which asks for exactly the opposite.

[roblourens]

Exactly, but Jupyter lab's behavior doesn't make sense to me

[rebornix]

Playing around this again, what VS Code does now is, shift+enter reveals cell B in center and focuses it, since it's focused cell, the height change of cell A won't change the visual position of cell B. @roblourens correct me if it's not the behavior you would expect.