Thomas Kluyver

I think that could technically work :slightly_smiling_face: but it's an awkward workaround at best - if you're stuck in something like `less`, you'd need to open a terminal on the...

> Do I understand correctly nothing really forces to spawn bash process the moment kernel starts? Could wait to receive first code cell, which could contain %magic config statements. Do...

Jupyter does have support for making an input prompt while a cell runs - to see what I mean, in a Python notebook, do something like `a = input('> ')`....

> It relies on SIGTTIN & SIGTTOUT, standard POSIX signals. Interesting idea! I don't think it's easy to do something based on that, because SIGTTIN is sent to *background* processes...

> I think SIGTTIN is in use by *nix shells since shell background processes were invented, the thing as as robust as it gets and designed exactly for the purpose...

Thanks, and sorry again about the long delay in looking at this. I'm going to merge this PR as is now; I think it's a clear improvement. @Carreau feel free...

If you have CI running on Windows, you may need to get rid of the emoji in the above workaround. On Azure pipelines, all my jobs started failing, with a...

Should we get rid of the option to generate a setup.py file in sdists? We turned that off by default in 3.5 (November 2021).

I think this does the wrong thing after an explicit newline, e.g. `abc\r\n\bdef`. At least in my regular terminal emulator, `\b` can go backwards if it has wrapped onto a...

There is a Python library [wcwidth](https://github.com/jquast/wcwidth) with tables of wide and combining characters; this could be adapted to JS.