In previous releases, you had to use %cpaste. With IPython 5, so long as your terminal supports 'bracketed paste', it should just work. We'll probably deprecate

In previous releases, you had to use %cpaste. With IPython 5, so long as your terminal supports 'bracketed paste', it should just work. We'll probably deprecate %cpaste eventually. We got this feature with no effort on our part - it's built into prompt_toolkit.