[IPython-user] Re: Re: broken completion

[Fernando Perez]

Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> Okay, I figured it out (at least partially). It's the "colors Linux"
> setting in my .ipythonrc. "NoColor" works. I installed another
> "tab-completer" (rlcompleter2) and it has the same problems like the
> "normal tab" (= Python rlcompleter (?)).
> 
> And this is of course the reason why the default Python shell has no
> tab problems - it's colourless...
> 
> Well. IPython is superior to the standard Python shell even in black
> and white but I'd prefer colours...

Bummer (the loss of color).  I thought that Gary Bishop had reported his 
readline working with coloring just fine.  Perhaps you could try using that? 
(google for uncpythontools).

Cheers,

f