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Funny, sitting in the drive through today, my mind wandered to what it'd take to reimplement python.el in terms of an IPython back-end process. While I'm not te

Funny, sitting in the drive through today, my mind wandered to what it'd take to reimplement python.el in terms of an IPython back-end process. While I'm not terribly interested in notebook support per se, I'd love to be able to run OS X Emacs.app against multiple IPython "REPL servers" running on OS X, FreeBSD, and Windows. This project might be a good place to start. Speaking of Windows, anyone out there have recent status on any efforts to port IPython to IronPython? IIRC removing CPython implementation dependencies was explicitly mentioned in the general design goals for the 0.1x refactoring, but I couldn't find anything beyond this when I looked into it a few months ago. I ask because it's actually a project I've seriously considered picking up myself if it's not nearing completion elsewhere.

smortaz 14y ago
re IronPython/IPython: it's on the list of things i'd like to fund the IPython team to do, though there have been bigger fish to fry during the past year... most recently getting IPython on to Windows Azure & Visual Studio. It shouldn't be too hard given the recent rearchitecture. <disc: me @ msft>
tkf 14y ago
You can connect to REPLs over ssh using `ipython console`. Even without EIN, you can use this command (plus several options for ssh connection) for python-mode's interactive shell. With EIN I think it's a little bit easier (if you are using python.el), as it helps you to setup these options.