jupyter-vim-binding VS nbstripout

I already use jupytext to store notebooks as code but the improved state management and notebook-as-app features are pretty compelling and I'm trying it out.

Unfortunately, I'm quite used to very specific vim keybindings in Jupyter (https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding) that make it pretty hard to use anything else :/

On the on hand: cool, if you're an avid emacsen or a vimmer, yeah, ok. OTOH, gosh that is such a cluttered and cumbersome setup. Just bring in vim/emacs bindings to your jupyter: https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding. There's a handful of plugins, choose one.

Whatever the final solution everyone decides should be, I just hope it doesn't involve having two redundant windows open side-by-side like that.

Use jupyter-vim-bindings! Works really well!! https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding

Also, you can check out the vim key-binding extension if you are a loyal vim user like me! https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding

If you'd like to automatically remove empty / tagged cells or retroactively apply this filter to your git history, you can read the nbstripout documentation on GitHub.

I used something as a precommit hook in the past that remove plots and other rendered content and only kept text and code in git index. I'm almost sure it was https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout but it's been a while and I could be wrong.

Once the hook was in place git diff worked well enough to not need any other diffing tool.

As far as versioning, I use nbstripout (notebook strip out) I think there are alternatives too.

You can use it with source control, I do it for about 18 notebooks I use on a daily basis:

https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout