Global pairing configuration is not effective in versions v0.7.*

First - thanks very much for writing this - it’s very very useful - it really changes the usability of Notebooks for writing anything more substantial than a quick demo.

Having said that, I’m running into almost constant trouble with pairing.

I have put this into ~/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py:

c.NotebookApp.contents_manager_class = "jupytext.TextFileContentsManager"
c.ContentsManager.default_jupytext_formats = "ipynb,Rmd"

With that setting, I am expecting that, whenever I save a Notebook from Jupyter, I will get a paired .Rmd file, and whenever I open and save an .Rmd file from Jupyter, I will get the matching .ipynb file. Is that expectation correct? Because, more often than not, I get neither effect, and I have to run jupytext --to manually to get the conversion.

Am I doing something wrong? What could I do, to debug?

[matthew-brett]

Actually, the nb2plots thing is a competitor to sphinx-gallery if anything. It does a one-way write of a notebook into ReST, putting code cells into sphinx directives, so the stuff is easier to edit, and then rebuilds the notebooks for download, at page build time.

[matthew-brett]

Thanks - that’s a relief to know that I wasn’t suffering from the effects of an unpredictable gap in space-time …