Assign a special name to the last console output.

[maxslimmer]

Feature Request

I would be cool if you could access the last (and maybe second-to-last) values returned from debug console evaluations via a special name (like maybe "_" and "__"), similar to ipython and other interactive REPL.

> 2
2

> 1
1

> f"last expression: {_}, second-to-last: {__}"
'last expression: 1, second-to-last: 2'

[Karthik Nadig (karthiknadig)]

Debug console itself is handled by VS Code. Moving this to the right repo for further discussion.

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[roblourens]

I think I would send this back to you Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig), having a special value like this would have to be something that the debug adapter would do, does that make sense? VS Code can't change how a command is evaluated

[Karthik Nadig (karthiknadig)]

roblourens Thanks for clarifying, I read this completely wrong when I moved it. This should go to debugpy.

[Rich Chiodo (rchiodo)]

Thanks for the suggestion. Moving to a discussion item for up votes.