System details:

Positron and OS details:

Positron Version: 2026.04.0 build 217
Code - OSS Version: 1.109.2
Commit: c87af6bdec1f7cb6057b76a4b8e30280bb584ae7
Date: 2026-03-27T07:46:17.689Z
Electron: 39.3.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

Session details:

Any

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Run some commands in an R or Python console
2. Open a Quarto document
3. Place the cursor in a prose section
4. Open the History pane
5. Click a statement
6. Click the "To Source" button, or right-click and choose "Send to Editor"

The R or Python code is inserted as prose instead of code.

Expected or desired behavior:

Inserting history entries into the editor as-is makes sense if you're inserting into an R or Python file, but for Quarto we could do better.

• Cursor is already in a code cell -> text is inserted as is
• Cursor is outside a code cell -> a new code cell is created with the language matching the history entry

From a conversation with @cwickham at work week.