Just start ipython? The Ipython shell is the original jupyter, with ipython notebook been splitted of at some point. But what you describe is normal behaviour

Just start ipython? The Ipython shell is the original jupyter, with ipython notebook been splitted of at some point. But what you describe is normal behaviour in any REPL. The main advantage notebooks have over shells is a better sessionhandling and richful datastructures. Images, markdown and stuff is a bit hard to display on a regular terminal. Ipython has the qt-frontend for this, but then moved to notebooks