[IPython-dev] Quick question out of interest...

Carl Smith carl.input at gmail.com
Sun Jan 26 21:46:08 EST 2014


Thanks to both Brian and Ray. Your answers provide a nice little overview
of why and why not keep it single view. Brian's reasoning for the Notebook
is a pretty nice starting point for thinking about modern shells in general.

On Ray's comments, it is obviously helpful to have a ready view of imagery
when doing certain kinds of work, and Thomas also mentioned having an
overview of things like the contents of files and directories. I personally
prefer something shell-like, but with the ability to open useful secondary
interfaces, like critically a text editor, in maximised views, so there's
always just one interface in view at a time, basically tabs with different
UIs in, though for something specialised like NeXpy, it probably does make
a lot of sense to do it the way you have.

Thanks again for taking the time, and for sharing your thoughts.
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