[doc] Missing documentation on how to use the configuration system for plugin authors

[olethanh]

Hi.

I could not find any doc on how to implement the configuration system in a plugin particularly for a %magic function and on how to have your parameters be inspectable by %config

[minrk]

here is an illustration of a configurable magic that shows up in %config, etc.

[takluyver]

storemagic (in IPython/extensions) is also now configurable.

On 14 September 2013 09:24, Olivier Le Thanh Duong <notifications@github.com

wrote:

Hi.

I could not find any doc on how to implement the configuration system in a
plugin particularly for a %magic function and on how to have your
parameters be inspectable by %config

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[olethanh]

Thanks to both of you, I had found a way to make it working but it was a bit more complex. I will adopt this solution as it is more elegant.

Juste a note @minrk you have Configurable.init(self, parent=shell) in your example, but I had to use config=shell.config as did @takluyver otherwise it wouldn't use the configuration parameters set in the profile (on 0.13.2 at least).

[minrk]

yes, that's a change that requires current IPython (≥ 1.0). (config=shell.config still works, but parent=shell implies also config=parent.config).