[IPython-dev] ipython on google app engine

[Ville M. Vainio]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:

> 1) the look and feel (lines starting with [1] etc.)
> 2) tab completion
> 3) ? and ??
> 4) inteligent up/down arrows history browsing
>

> 1) should be easy to fix, or at least come to a very close look & feel,
> 2) This will be hard, as it will require an interaction between the
> webbrowser and the server. We may learn from Sage, ipython1 or
> http://knoboo.com/

It should not be much harder than ?. You just pass the whole statement
to server, just as you would with shift+enter, and it returns a list
of completions. After that, the UI displays the previous command, and
shows the completions in a javascript popup.

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