quarto preview in a terminal with a venv: increase wait time to 5s#962
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quarto preview in a terminal with a venv: increase wait time to 5s#962
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I'm not surprised, because this slipped by us. I could only manage to reproduce it by having my shell enable a venv by default. |
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Sorry, the changelog entry is there now. (My previous push attempt had failed because of the github outage and I didn't notice.) |
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Added a comment explaining that this timeout is a magic number found with trial & error. Will merge once tests pass |
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This attempts to work around vscode clobbering the preview command; recent versions appear to inject shell commands after
quarto previewstarted, which completely breaks the preview command. The 5s timeout was not determined with any level of rigor, but does consistently solve the problem in my environment.