Options to customize session watcher behavior

There are plenty of issues requesting options to customize session watcher behavior. This issue is a collection of all existing issues regarding session watcher options.

• Plot created by plot functions:
  • Device: #277
  • Viewer: #331
• WebView in general:
  • Theming: #178, #172
• browser webview created by shiny, R help, httpgd, etc.
  • Viewer: https://github.com/Ikuyadeu/vscode-R/issues/329#issuecomment-641004693, #243, #166
  • Proxy: #275
  • Search: #204
  • Customizable port mapping: #192
• viewer and page_viewer webview created by htmlwidgets, profvis, etc.
  • Viewer: #243
• Data webview created by View()
  • Viewer: #243
  • Replace existing: #214

I’m thinking of defining more options to allow users to customize the behavior of session watcher so that different features (e.g. plot) could be disabled, and the viewer of browser, viewer, page_viewer, and View() could be a VSCode ViewColumn (Active, Beside, etc.) or external (open a web browser on client side like R’s native behavior).

[renkun-ken]

@benz0li Thanks for providing a dev environment.

[benz0li]

ℹ️ It is now possible to develop VS Code Extensions with code-server (v4.0.0+), because it has been rebased on upstream’s newly open-sourced server: https://github.com/coder/code-server/issues/3661