ipython/ipython — Issue #1276: notebook menu item to send a KeyboardInterrupt to the kernel
Author: dwf
Created: 2012-01-16 21:02:39+00:00
State: open

So far I am pretty impressed with the HTML notebook, even though I had to compile a new Firefox on my lab's Fedora 14 machines to get it to work. :) The one thing that seems problematic, however, is the lack of a way to tell the kernel to stop executing something. At least, if it's there, I haven't found it in a half hour of fiddling.

I notice that execution in a cell of a bit of slightly long-running code actually updates stdout fairly quickly, which is quite nice, but it would be even nicer to have the flexibility to kill said code when I inevitably realize I've made an off by one error. Obviously Ctrl+C is probably caught by the browser for the clipboard copy, but would a menu item be a possibility?