Re: IPython 5.0.0 beta 1 now available !

The way xonsh (which also uses prompt_toolkit) handles this is much
better. The dropbox is full width, with many columns, and even fills
up the whole terminal if you ctrl-L.

Aaron Meurer

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Matthias Bussonnier
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 2:12 PM, klo uo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> - When I invoke completion, dropbox shows modestly with 5 items. Is it
>>> possible to set number of items shown to preferred value?
>>
>> yes:
>> c.TerminalInteractiveShell.space_for_menu=<int>
>
> I'm finding that the dropbox is less useful to me than the the
> previous IPython behavior that gives me a pageful of options.  For
> example, I often find myself searching through the methods and
> attributes of an object for something that looks useful, and there are
> often 20 or so methods / attributes on an object, so it is useful to
> do:
>
> import numpy as np
> np.<tab>
>
> and get the whole page of possible completions, with multiple columns.
>    On the other hand a dropbox of that length is harder to grok.   Is
> it possible to get the multiple column completion list instead of the
> dropbox?
>
> See you,
>
> Matthew
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