Opening notebooks as notebooks, rather than as text files?

[krassowski]

Opening files with matches from the sidebar is fine, but notebooks open as files for me. Scrolling to the cell with match should be easy enough when the match is in the cell. Is this a bug/something specific to my setup, or is it just not implemented?

Additional context

• Python package version: 1.0.1
• JupyterLab 3.4.3 but also seen that in a much older version

[fcollonval]

Thanks for the suggestion @krassowski.

That choice was made on purpose as the underlying tool (riggrep) can only deal with plain text file.

It is definitely possible to do something smarter. But it will require implementing a kind of registry for file types that will support a different behavior for opening a file and going to a specific match (with the ability to pick the default viewer).

[fcollonval]

Xref #75

[nthiery]

This extension is looking super promising in the context of teaching: for a student being able to quickly search for a keyword in the course notes or earlier assignments is super useful.

Back to this specific issue: when it will be implemented, one thing to double check is that it also opens jupytext notebooks as notebooks.