[IPython-dev] Console ipython - multi-line history editing

[Thomas Kluyver]

You remember right, it should work in the terminal too. However, it's
possible that pyreadline doesn't support that. It certainly works with gnu
readline on Linux.
On 21 Oct 2014 07:44, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know whether I am imagining this, but I thought that the
> console IPython shell allowed history editing of multi-line
> statements. So, for example, if In[1] is
>
>     for i in range(3):
>         print(i)
>
> I thought I could use up-arrow to recall the whole two-line statement
> and edit it. But when I try this (on Windows, with Python 3.4, IPython
> 2.3.0 and pyreadline 2.0) it seems that up-arrow recalls single lines.
>
> Is there a configuration setting I need to change, or am I imagining
> this and IPython doesn't do that? (I may be confusing the IPython
> shell with PowerShell's PSReadLine, which does). I know I can use the
> notebook for this, but sometimes console IPython is more convenient...
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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