Inline plotting

[MLKaufman]

Thanks for all the hard work on this plugin!

Feature request:

The ability to have inline plotting below each code block similar to the Jupyter notebook VSCode plugin.

This would enable a more similar preview to the rendered Quarto document, aiding with debugging and formatting.
Additionally this would greatly improve the organization of working in the document, especially with multiple languages, as currently each opens its own interactive side window for plots making it difficult to keep track of which code block matches which generated plot.

[jjallaire]

Agreed that this would be a great option. Will keep it in mind as we continue development!

[kongdd]

call for this feature too

[emfeltham]

this would be really great

[peekxc]

Though not quite the same feature, looks like you can now embed jupyter cell outputs in the newest prerelease (https://quarto.org/docs/prerelease/1.3/embed.html)

[emfeltham]

I agree, that feature is nice; but, I think that it would be really useful to have inline plotting. Generally, if I want inline plotting now in vscode, I have to use Jupyter notebooks. I much, much prefer working with rmd-style documents; though, I've been using Jupyter notebooks lately for two reasons (1) inline plotting makes it much easier to see what's going on when I am working on a longer document, and (2) the outputs stay embedded in the document, and I don't have to re-run all of the cells to generate a document when I add new cells or modify some subset of them. These are weighted against what I find to be a more awkward experience, especially for longer prose sections.