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No indication on whether codeblock is up to date
When making a change to a code block, one has to Play/evalutate it in order for it to become "active" in the runtime. However there is not much highlighting in the IDE for teachhing this fundamental thing.
Expected: After making a change to a codeblock, there is visual indication that the codeblock is 'changed-but-not-applied'. Bonus if the action I need to take to make it become 'applied' (Play) is highlighted.
I second the need for this. Would be extremely useful to be made aware of stale code.
My thoughts on this would to be maybe highlight the block somehow, and put a marker on the scroll bar. That way you can see at a glance which blocks are stale.
That sounds good to me. Would it be a good idea to have a separate run (▶) button appear on a stale code block to update only that block? It may even be worth having a full set of editing controls local to a block: e.g. undo, redo, revert to last version.
On a side note, I understand the semantics of "run" to be about updating the code blocks, so perhaps it should be renamed update (⇧), or even commit?