repo-actions links do not appear if there is no TOC

[maelle]

Bug description

I created a book project using RStudio and only added the repo-url and repo-actions

In _quarto.yml I have

book:
  title: "sidebarbug"
  author: "Jane Doe"
  date: "8/26/2022"
  chapters:
    - index.qmd
    - intro.qmd
    - summary.qmd
    - references.qmd
  repo-url: https://github.com/maelle/sidebarbug/
  repo-actions: [edit, issue]

Source: https://github.com/maelle/sidebarbug

Now on the page where there is a TOC (because there are headers) the repo action links are present. https://maelle.github.io/sidebarbug/
But on the pages where there is no TOC (which is expected as there are no headers) the repo action links are not present (which I was not expecting). https://maelle.github.io/sidebarbug/intro.html

I don't think this is relevant but just in case, I am using
RStudio 2022.07.0+548 "Spotted Wakerobin" Release (34ea3031089fa4e38738a9256d6fa6d70629c822, 2022-07-06) for Ubuntu Bionic
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.12.8 Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Safari/537.36
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

Checklist

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[elgabbas]

I recently noticed the exact issue using v1.3.24.

[dragonstyle]

This should be fixed in our next pre-release build. You have a couple of choices:

1. Force the actions to appear in the sidebar even when there is no TOC by adding repo-actions: true to your qmd like so:

---
repo-actions: true
---

This is a document with no header or TOC

2. Starting in Quarto 1.3, we will attempt to place the tools in the TOC or sidebar if we can, and if none of those are present, we will place them in the footer of the page.

Thanks for reporting this!

[maelle]

Thanks for this fix and the one for #4404! 🚀 🙏