Build targets in sidebar
Hugovdberg opened this issue · 2 comments
Hugovdberg commented
It would be nice to have a panel in the sidebar that lists all the targets in the Snakefile so you can quickly run a target, perhaps including a [Force run] button, and an option to quickly jump to the definition.
A plain text mockup:
- all [> [!> [\
- download_data [> [!> [\
- preprocess_data [> [!> [\
using the following definitions for the symbold:
- [> Run selected rule, call
snakemake {rule} - [!> Force run selected rule, call `snakemake --force {rule}
- [\ Edit rule definition, open file and go to line
Some things that need to be considered:
- visualise modular rules
- handle multiple open folders in the current workspace
- select profile to use (per open folder)
- how and when to update the list of rules as building the list can be slow
- visualise running rules, can we allow starting multiple rules in parallel?
Finally, I don't have any experience building VS Code plugins, but I figure it should be possible.
johanneskoester commented
That is a great idea! I am happy to take a PR.
Hugovdberg commented
Do you have more things we should consider when developing this?