Thomas Kluyver

Thanks @kdm9 et al for diagnosing and figuring out a fix for this, and sorry it's taken me so long to look at it. I think the fix basically looks...

I've released version 0.8 with this change - hopefully that fixes a lot of the issues people have been seeing.

Very likely, sorry I didn't spot that. I've just released version 0.8 with that PR merged - @naglemi can you see if that fixes things?

Thanks!

0.8 should fix this (thanks to PR #120). As a separate matter, I'm still open to setting some environment variable to indicate that it's bash_kernel outside the terminal. I'm a...

I think what you want is something like this: ``` try: import IPython return IPython.start_ipython(user_ns=global_vars) except ImportError: pass # Continue to set up a basic shell if IPython isn't installed...

You can also pass `argv=sys.argv[:1]` into `start_ipython()` - that will prevent IPython from trying to parse your programs arguments, but if the user inspects `sys.argv`, they'll still see the original...

Oh, sorry, it should be just `argv=[]` (i.e. an empty list).

When Markdown cells are rendered, dollar signs can be used to delimit latex-style formulae. However, I didn't think that affected the syntax highlighting when they're in edit mode. :confused:

Someone also pointed out to me yesterday that if you put something that looks like a git commit ID in a markdown cell, it gets highlighted in blue and underlined....