Visualizations as preview windows

[deboer-tim]

Kui has a number of visualizations for files that will also be in git and hence be in a VS Code user's workspace. Just like in the Markdown link below, it would be extremely cool if we could provide an action on the file types that we recognize and open a visualization window instead of or beside the source editor: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/markdown

Yes, I realize that this is skipping the command line (which is normally the root and launch point of Kui), but if we have the viz available then this would be a great way to reuse it and expand Kui's base while providing something very useful.

Hmm, you could do a similar thing outside of VS Code by opening just the vis if you type a filename or adding a simple command like "viz pipeline.yaml" or "kui pipeline.yaml".

[myan9]

Nice idea! Kui currently supports a synchronous edit and preview feature for apache-composer. We should start to generalize this feature for a broad/advanced usage. We currently have some distinction between open and edit command, e.g. open a Markdown file shows the rendered version, and edit show the source code. I think introducing a visualization command should be very useful!

[starpit]

i agree, this is great. we can leverage the vscode "command line" to good effect.

[starpit]

@myan9 given kui's "prescan" model, i.e. a model of all registered kui commands, we should be able to generate a vscode command registration list automatically, right?