docstring for Pluto cells

[mind6]

I would like to see the ability to write a docstring for any individual cell. Sometimes a cell is there to provide state, I don't want to see the printout of the state, just the docstring for what that state represents. This way hidden cells can show a meaningful output instead of occupying a darkened area on the notebook page.

Right now if you put a string on top of a begin/end block, Pluto actually tries to process it as a docstring but fails to do so.

cannot document the following expression:

begin
<julia code>
end

error(::String, ::String)@error.jl:44
top-level scope@[Local: 1](http://localhost:1234/edit?id=ae68b340-5c36-11ed-3b95-6de589f0a234#)[inlined]

[disberd]

Hi, Pluto just outputs the last expression in the block to the frontend.

From what I understand from what you write, you just want to have the output provide some information on what was done in the begin-end block so that you can hide the input and just see a meaningufl comment.

If this is the case, and especially if you are using a begin .. end block, you can just put your description string as the last instruction before the end. The remaining code will still be executed in global scope but just the string will be sent to the output.