Configuration and customization

• Overview of the IPython configuration system
  • The main concepts
  • Configuration objects and files
  • Configuration files inheritance
  • Class based configuration inheritance
  • Configuration file location
  • Profiles
  • Command-line arguments
  • Design requirements
• IPython extensions
  • Getting extensions
  • Using extensions
  • Writing extensions
  • Extensions bundled with IPython
• Configuring the ipython command line application
  • Application-level configuration
  • Classes that can be configured
  • Example
• Integrating your objects with IPython
  • Tab completion
  • Rich display
  • Custom exception tracebacks
• Editor configuration
  • TextMate
  • Vim
  • (X)Emacs
• Custom input transformation
  • String based transformations
  • AST transformations
• Outdated configuration information that might still be useful
  • Color
  • Input/Output prompts and exception tracebacks
  • Object details (types, docstrings, source code, etc.)
  • Fine-tuning your prompt