That would've been a dealbreaker for me too. I'll update the post to try to make it clearer. When you run 'ipython -p sh' or include 'import ipy_profile_sh', by

That would've been a dealbreaker for me too. I'll update the post to try to make it clearer. When you run 'ipython -p sh' or include 'import ipy_profile_sh', by default everything will be in 'shell mode'. I'm not too sure, but I think it basically parses the first command and determines if it's in the IPython set of commands/value namespace, and if not runs it in the shell...