Classes and the command line

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, October 27, 2014 8:48:52 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Monday, October 27, 2014 8:40:48 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Ben Finney  wrote:
> > > Right. There is line-by-line history, and editing enabled with the
> > > "readline" plug-in. (This is an advantage of using a programmer-friendly
> > > operating system, which MS Windows sadly is not.)
> > 
> > You can get block-by-block history by using Idle. I find that fairly
> > convenient for manipulating class/function definitions.
> > 
> > ChrisA
> 
> Umm... Nice!
> A bit inconsistent in that the '...' does not appear.
> But thats good; makes copy|cut-pasting from interpreter to file
> a mostly trivial operation.

No not quite so nice...
Does not respect the current indent level :-(
[which an emacs 'rectangle' copy-paste will]