Mysterious select box displays when using tab complete

[commadelimited]

Within the past few weeks whenever I tab to display existing properties on an object, I get a scrollable select box instead of the old style "show all properties". I'm not saying this is a bug, but I don't like this behavior and would prefer the old way.

Is this something happening with ipdb or somewhere else? If it is within ipdb, is there a setting to disable this select box and go back to the old style?

[gotcha]

AFAIK, there is nothing special in ipdbto cause that comportment. Can you check if this is sthing from latest IPython releases (by testing with older IPython) ?

[commadelimited]

@gotcha, after chatting with some of my coworkers, it appears we updated our version of iPython which included this change. Here's the fix for anyone else who comes along:

TerminalInteractiveShell.display_completions : 'column'|'multicolumn'|'readlinelike'
Default: 'multicolumn'

Options for displaying tab completions, 'column', 'multicolumn', and 'readlinelike'. These options are for prompt_toolkit, see prompt_toolkit documentation for more information.

Create a profile with ipython profile create if you don't have one already, then set the above in ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py

[gotcha]

Thanks for exploring.