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Some way to keep or retrieve evaluation strings #123

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@martinmcclure

Under some circumstances, it would be nice to be able to keep the contents of evaluator sub-panes, or to retrieve the contents of recently closed ones.

For instance, this sequence is fairly common:

  • Evaluate expression 1 in an inspector pane, resulting in object A.
  • Evaluate a expression 2 in the inspector pane for object A.
  • Edit expression 1 to form expression 1a, and evaluate that, resulting in object B.
  • Evaluate expression 2 in the inspector pane for object B.

This is currently awkward, because evaluating expression 1a replaces the inspector pane for A with that for B, closing any evaluators you had in that pane. Might be nice to keep them by default?

The fix for #111 would help in slightly different cases, especially when inspecting temporary variables in a debugger frame, and stepping.

Having a viewable history of recently-used evaluations would also be good, as well as a way to save a library of commonly-used expressions.

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