[sage-support] Re: Fwd: Re: ipython huge traceback

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:25:48 -0700

Hi Justin,

In $SAGE_ROOT/ipython there is a bunch of ipython
config files, and those files are well documented.

I have recently found those are convenient to tweak
for one's personal preferences :)

-Alex

On 10/15/06, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Oct 15, 2006, at 21:54 , William Stein wrote:

> See below, regarding tab completion.

Cool!  Who knew?

Apropos of this: could I have figured this out on my own?  I know,
this is one of those open-ended questions.  Better: where should I
look to have figured this out on my own?  :-}

Justin

>
> ------- Forwarded message -------
> From: "Fernando Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> To: "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: ipython huge traceback
> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:16:32 -0700
>
> Justin Walker suggested changing the tab behavior in ipython to be
> like
> in bash, which it currently isn't.  Any thoughts about that?
>       http://sage.math.washington.edu:9002/sage_trac/ticket/118
>   I like IPython's tab completion behavior and hadn't thought much
> about
> it differing from bash's until now.
>
> That's entirely a user customization, and it has nothing to do with
> Bash:
> it's purely the behavior of the readline library.  IPython happens to
> tweak readline one way and bash does it in a different way, but
> readline
> is very customizable.
>
> Justin is free to set the readline behavior to his heart's content
> via the
> settings in the sage ipythonrc file.  Just look for those called
> readline_parse_and_bind, which will make calls to the function with
> that
> name in Python's readline library.  The meaning of those settings is
> defined in the readline documentation.
>
> So this is something users can set as they like it, it's not really
> a bug.
>
> In particular, what Justin wants requires changing
>
> readline_parse_and_bind set show-all-if-ambiguous on
>
> to:
>
> readline_parse_and_bind set show-all-if-ambiguous off
>
> in his personal config file.
>
> Cheers,
>
> f
>
>
>
> >

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