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Disable exiting current cell when moving around with keyboard arrows

IGRACH — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:46:22 GMT

Is there any way do disable exiting current cell when I move cursor around with arrows. When I press up arrow or down arrow it will exit the current cell and go to another cell. Can that functionally be disabled so when I hold up or down arrow key, cursor will go to the end (or beginning) of the cell and stay there.

Re: Disable exiting current cell when moving around with keyboard arrows

Nivethan_Venkat — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:22:36 GMT

Hi @IGRACH,

As far as I understand working in Databricks notebooks, you can't stay at a particular notebook cell when you are pressing / holding up or down arrow key, and there's no functionality currently in Developer setting to enable / disable this option.

But instead there is a option currently to move the cursor between cells / move lines up and down, as given in image below:

Best Regards,
Nivethan V

Re: Disable exiting current cell when moving around with keyboard arrows

koji_kawamura — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:54:20 GMT

Hi @IGRACH

If you have a larger cell with many lines of code, focusing mode may be useful. In that mode, the UI doesn't move to the next cell when press the down arrow button at the end of the cell; it stays there.

Re: Disable exiting current cell when moving around with keyboard arrows

IGRACH — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:16:56 GMT

It does move down to the next cell.

Re: Disable exiting current cell when moving around with keyboard arrows

koji_kawamura — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:18:07 GMT

@IGRACH Sorry about the false information. Yes, it does move. I was testing it wrongly yesterday. Thanks for the correction!

Re: Disable exiting current cell when moving around with keyboard arrows

IGRACH — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:00:10 GMT

Is there any place where I can put this as a request.

Re: Disable exiting current cell when moving around with keyboard arrows

koji_kawamura — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:00:23 GMT

Hi @IGRACH

Yes, please send your feedback from your workspace by clicking your user icon and the "Send feedback" button. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/resources/ideas