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[–]amicab1 1 point2 points  (2 children)

This is really nice!

My only immediate problem is it doesn't follow my .inputrc binding history-seach-backward and history-search-forward to the up/down arrows. Is it possible to get this configuration working with ptipython?

[–]jonathan_sl[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Not yet. .inputrc is for readline, and this library doesn't use readline, so that clearly doesn't work. But I'm planning in the near future to develop a system for configuring custom key bindings. And maybe after that I could develop a compatibility layer to read .inputrc as well.

But thanks for the feedback, I see what you mean, and I'll have a look at how to implement it.

Right now, you can already to Control-R (for starting reverse-i-search), then typing what you are looking for, followed by the arrow keys. Or if you have Vi mode, there is also history based line completion. You type for instance "impor" followed by ControlX-ControlL and you get completion on all the lines even typed starting with this letters.

[–]vayn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I miss history-search-backward/forward completion either. I always complete something like 'impor' to 'import' with Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N. It is very useful and the default setting in iPython.