Ctrl+Enter to skip text cells

[pesho-ivanov]

Problem

I often use Ctrl+Enter to execute several cells in a row. If there are text/markdown cell explanations in-between, I have to additionally press Ctrl+Enter for each of them, which is confusing me lightly but repetitively since these cells are irrelevant for the execution logic. To stop the suffering, I rather prefer to move the text to code comments, breaking latex and beauty.

Proposed Solution

It would be great if the Jupyter > Interactive Window > Text Editor > Auto Move to Next Cell option can be extended from a boolean On/Off to a drop-down Next Cell/Next Code Cell/Off. In the Next Code Cell case, pressing Ctrl+Enter should sequentially execute/render all following text cells and at most one code cell (or no code cells if the end is reached).

Note that the execution of text cells could be implemented lazily (postpone the execution of a text cell unless this is needed to reach a code cell) or eagerly (executing text cells as soon as the previous cell has been executed). I am not sure which is going to be more comfortable, possibly both may be useful.

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