Ah man that burst the illusion - tried again with a small variation on the defaults and it tried but wasn't nearly as convincing.
It was still able to realize that publish(X) should cause a log with timestamps and X on each line, and correctly show the topics that should exist, but changing the rate doesn't work _quite_ right in the timestamps, and it started to skip some steps (e.g. automatically showing rostopic echo). I wonder if it knows about launch files...
If you stick to the basic tutorial it's indistinguishable from running it locally, in my opinion.
It was still able to realize that publish(X) should cause a log with timestamps and X on each line, and correctly show the topics that should exist, but changing the rate doesn't work _quite_ right in the timestamps, and it started to skip some steps (e.g. automatically showing rostopic echo). I wonder if it knows about launch files...
If you stick to the basic tutorial it's indistinguishable from running it locally, in my opinion.