default (jupytext) settings for newly created notebooks

[parmentelat]

a bit along the lines of #1095

I would propose to allow a user to define their default jupytext settings
for me I'm using a standardized but convoluted combo that aims at keeping the text unchanged across version numbers, and to avoid massive false changes that may happen when a notebook gets distributed to others, so for example

jupytext:
  cell_metadata_filter: all,-hidden,-heading_collapsed,-run_control,-trusted
  notebook_metadata_filter: all, -jupytext.text_representation.jupytext_version, -jupytext.text_representation.format_version,
    -language_info.version, -language_info.codemirror_mode.version, -language_info.codemirror_mode,
    -language_info.file_extension, -language_info.mimetype, -toc

and it would be a relief to either

• be sure that all the newly created (text) notebooks have these settings
• be able to occasionally enforce these settings on notebooks produced elsewhere

probably very low priority, but I thought I'd write that down while I was at it

[mwouts]

Hey @parmentelat , for this one I think that the option exists. Is the new section on advanced options helpful? (I hope to deliver the new version of the documentation soon)

[parmentelat]

oh, I was not aware !

your link appears to be broken - probably due to some sort of bug on github ?

I checked the advanced options in the current documentation, and would indeed be eager to read the WIP about this sort of things
again this is far from critical and I was only mentioning as a corollary of the "new jupytext notebook" mentioned in #1095

[mwouts]

Thanks @parmentelat . Well, the link is broken as I merged the docs refactoring yesterday evening. So you're correct the place to read about this is the advanced options section in the documentation.

[parmentelat]

thank you for this tip, this is going to help :)
as an aside, I can see the ~/.jupyter/ folder is not among the places where the config file is looked for, this is where I would have liked to put it;
but never mind, I'm closing this

[parmentelat]

I have created a github support ticket to report the odd behaviour of this repo under github
not sure if this is readable by all, but for the record the ticket is here
https://support.github.com/ticket/personal/0/2236210

I expect gh may look further into that, it is nothing serious anyway