Paste-able mode in terminal

[takluyver]

%paste isn't very helpful using IPython in an SSH session, as it pastes from the server clipboard. (SO question)

I suggest we add a mode that:

• Disables autoindenting
• Prepends if True:\n to cells, so that indented code will work

I think this could be done in an extension.

[minrk]

Isn't this what %cpaste is for?

[takluyver]

It is, but I think there are still advantages to having a paste mode. You wouldn't need extra typing to go between pasting and executing, and code you'd pasted would appear in history.

Dropping priority to low.

[bfroehle]

It is, but I think there are still advantages to having a paste mode. You wouldn't need extra typing to go between pasting and executing, and code you'd pasted would appear in history.

But, you would need extra typing to go between "regular" mode and "paste" mode. This doesn't seem like any less work than typing %cpaste. The history saving issue is already being tracked in #1384.

I suggest we close this issue.

[takluyver]

It's being tracked, but not worked on - the subject of #1384 doesn't fit in our current architecture (we store history before executing a cell). This would be rather easier to implement.

[takluyver]

I think this can now be closed - code with leading whitespace works again (although through input transformations, not by prepending if True:), and autoindent can be toggled on and off with the %autoindent magic.