It’s possible this already exists, but I couldn’t find it! If that’s the case, I apologize in the advance.

A favorite Jupyter Notebook feature of mine is shift+cmd+p’s command look up box (see attached image). It’s a handy way to search for anything you might want to do (and to discover other capabilities). Just adding this to the list of Jupyter-like features that would be handy when using Observable “…

Hey Ben! Totally - we have almost that: cells can only be deleted if they’re empty, and option-delete merges a cell with its previous cell, so the magic trick is: ⌘A Hit delete Option+Delete And you’ll have deleted a cell. Maybe we should add something to delete a cell regardless of whether it h…

Having a shortcut for deleting a cell that works anytime feels worthwhile, as does the search for command-bar. (Compare also to tools like LaunchBar , Alfred.) In a similar vein: what about a shortcut to deselect the current cell. That’s needed when looking up shortcuts (pressing ?) and when using a…

Yeah I couldn’t figure out how to delete a cell at all - having a clickable “delete” button somewhere would be more discoverable.

The inserter button that lives between cells can also be used to delete cells by merging them. Hold down shift and click the little arrows as shown here: [merge-cells]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll give that a try. I won’t pretend to have a deep design philosophy behind this request. I’m just very used to hitting “x” key to instantly nuke cells in Jupyter Notebooks. I’m also a fan of using “a” and “b” to add cells above and below the one that’s currently active. I don…

These both seem a bit arbitrary and undiscoverable. Maybe you can figure out a way to unify deletion with the upcoming drag to rearrange feature?

FWIW, it took me forever to figure out how to delete a cell. Not discoverable, had to Google for it, then landed here. What I tried before Googling: I kept hitting Backspace and Delete in the empty cell, hoping it would delete the cell. This may be a workable interaction to add to the editor.

There is now a delete action automatically when a cell is empty and is no longer focused. So the way to do it now is to ⌘A Hit delete Hit escape I still like the idea the you can’t delete a non-empty cell.

I would love a hotkey to delete a cell

simonw February 1, 2018, 1:13am 8

I’d like a way to do this that works on an iPad - I expect I’ll be using Observable on the iPad quite a bit.

No possibility to delete a cell

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I would love a hotkey to delete a cell

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