[IPython-dev] New feature: Latex escapes tab complete to unicode

Brian Granger ellisonbg at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 17:50:24 EDT 2014


And thanks to Thomas for helping me get this reviewed and done!

Cheers,

Brian

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> We've just merged a new feature in master, unashamedly copying something we
> like from Julia. You can now type Python 3 unicode identifiers in the
> notebook and the Qt console using Latex-style names. I.e. type \alpha, press
> tab, and it's replaced by α. This should work for any character that's valid
> in identifiers.
>
> Thanks to Brian for implementing this in IPython:
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/6380
>
> It should be possible to do this in at least the two-process terminal
> frontend (ipython console) as well, though there's a small bug with it at
> the moment. Doing it in the single process terminal might be a bit more
> tricky.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
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