[IPython-dev] Re: Question about IPython behaviour

[Fernando Perez]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Fernando Perez wrote:
> 
> 
>>I talked to M. Hudson (pyrepl's author) ages ago about this: pyrepl 
>>wasn't suitable for ipython because it's curses-based.  That's how they 
>>get multi-line capabilities.  It is certainly a possibility to build a 
>>curses-enabled version of ipython which could run on top of pyrepl.
> 
> 
> I'm not so interested in that part of pyrepl. I haven't delved through 
> the code enough, but it does do multiline editing pretty much as we want 
> to do in the GUI. To enable that, the component that executes the inputs 
> probably doesn't use the code.InteractiveConsole line-based API. 
> *That's* the part we should steal (if indeed, it does exist and I'm not 
> just thinking wishfully). The curses bit is fluff that is obviated by 
> going GUI.

I was just trying to fill the history in vs ipython/pyrepl.  We should 
certainly see if they have that part built in a reasonably curses-independent 
way which we can reuse/steal.

Cheers,

f