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 > > > > > -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds -------- Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
