Markdown doesn't get updated unless I click 'Insert cell below'

[GayatriChandran]

Steps to cause the bug to occur

1. Open a Jupyter notebook
2. Insert 2 or 3 cells in advance.
3. Type text in the first cell and assign it as Markdown (by clicking the 'M' sign on the top-left corner of the cell).
4. Type in the next cell.

Actual behavior

The text in the first cell does not get auto-saved.

Expected behavior

The content in the first cell should get auto-saved.

The work-around which I'm using now :

After typing text in a cell, I click the '+' button or 'Insert cell below' (which works only if it's clicked twice) and that somehow saves the Markdown content that I just typed.

Jupyter environment

• Jupyter server running: Local
• Extension version: 2020.2.62710
• VS Code version: 1.41.1
• Python version: 3.7.3 64-bit
• OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.14393
• Virtual environment: conda

[rchiodo]

I'm not reproing this. Let me make sure I'm following the same steps though:

1. Open notebook
2. Insert cells at the top of the notebook
3. Type in text in first cell
4. Change to markdown
5. Type in text in second cell
6. Change to markdown
7. Type in text in third cell

First two cells should lose text typed in?

[GayatriChandran]

The steps you followed are correct, and it seems to be working as expected in your case. When I do the same thing, it doesn't get saved, unless I insert a cell below after entering text.

[rchiodo]

If you can repro it consistently, can you capture a console log for me? This one would be the console log for the editor. You get to this by running the command 'Developer: Open Webview Developer Tools', then click on the console tab, right click, save as, and upload here.

Thanks.

[DonJayamanne]

@Ikru488 Do you have auto save turned on?

[GayatriChandran]

The not-getting-saved problem got resolved when I reinstalled the python extension. It still acts funny though, I can't delete the text in a markdown cell, only modify it, or delete the cell.
Anyhow, here's the console log, hope this helps :
console-1581595192746.txt
No, I don't have auto save turned on.

[rchiodo]

Not sure what you mean by you can't delete text? The backspace key doesn't work?

[GayatriChandran]

I mean that deleted text reappears. Like this :

[rchiodo]

Oh okay. That makes more sense. That should be addressed by this issue here:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/8589