Automatic `View as markdown` not working as expected

[meditans]

Description

Hi, I usually edit marimo files as .md files from emacs (they are automatically exported from an org-mode file). When there's a bit of markdown in the .md file, and I load the file for the first time, each cell will show as code (containing a mo.md call). I can then click on the View as markdown button to change it in a markdown cell, and then I can click on the hide the source to get what I really want, i.e. the rendered markdown.

Now, I get that at the beginning, all cells, including markdown ones, are code, because I might want to interpolate values in the md cell, but the notebook is set up as run on startup (and on save). It would be nice if I could cut on the number of clicks I have to do to get to the rendered markdown (for now, 2 clicks per cell).

Suggested solution

I would suggest a configuration option that says: If the cell has been evaluated (and is now markdown), just hide the source automatically. What do you guys think?

Alternative

No response

Additional context

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[dmadisetti]

What version are you running? Because I think with the newest codeblock form this is the default?

But yup! markdown should be clean on render

[meditans]

>>> marimo.__version__
'0.11.7'

which should be the latest according to pypi!

[akshayka]

As a workaround for now, — there is a hide all markdown code action in the command palette (Cmd/Ctrl+k).

[dmadisetti]

Can you send me a screenshot of opening marimo/_tutorials/markdown_format.md?

/ share what your org-mode export looks like? Cannot seem to replicate

[mscolnick]

@meditans is this still happening to you?

[meditans]

No, the original issue doesn't happen anymore @mscolnick, thank you. I can do hide all markdown code, but I would welcome if this happened automatically, as I have to do it again every time I create a new cell.

[mscolnick]

@meditans we now do auto-hide markdown when created (after interacting with it once)

[sandover]

I'm a bit confused about this feature. This is what I see on first load when I run in edit mode. It is not rendering markdown.

The following is what I WANT to see -- but I can only see it by pressing "play" on each markdown cell. Is this because my notebook is set to lazy evaluation?

• I do NOT want automatic evaluation (this would trigger all kinds of side effects I don't want)
• i DO want markdown interspersed with code, by default.

[mscolnick]

@sandover yes, this is because markdown is not run during lazy-evaluation. there is this ticket which you might be interested in following: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo/issues/5942