Quarto extension doesn't watch inputs when previewing in web-based VSCode instance (code-server)

[jkrumbiegel]

This web-based VSCode instance I'm using runs on a proprietary platform which cannot show quarto previews in an internal window. That is fine, the platform itself has a feature to expose opening ports in separate browser tabs, so I can open a tab with the quarto preview once quarto sets up that network connection.

What's weird, though, is that quarto seems to always set --no-watch-inputs in the terminal that opens, for example:

quarto preview /home/jrun/data/code/test.qmd --no-browser --no-watch-inputs

I'm finding no available setting in the extension to control watching behavior for previews, but from a local VSCode I'm used to the watching-by-default behavior.

If I run quarto's terminal command myself without the --no-watch-inputs, watching works fine and the separate tab with the preview updates as expected.

Quarto extension version: v1.115.0

code-server: v4.23.0
Code: 1.88.0
Commit: 0cca7c67a4aba0e8ce199df0fdc59b64fc659fbc
Date: 2024-04-05T22:24:44.781Z (5 mos ago)
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/127.0

[andreasnoack]

I just hit this locally as well with version 1.116.0. If I manually run the command without the --no-watch-inputs flag then the preview updates as expected. Also, when the --no-watch-inputs flag is set, it seems misleading to print Watching files for changes in the terminal.