Maybe the now defunct pysh profile of ipython [1] is close to what you want. (It's defunct because it is mostly unneccesary in recent versions of ipython, that

Maybe the now defunct pysh profile of ipython [1] is close to what you want. (It's defunct because it is mostly unneccesary in recent versions of ipython, that page shows how to get most (all?) of the functionality it used to provide.) For Perl instead of Python there are psh [2] and zoidberg [3]. [1] http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/shell.html http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/shell.html [2] http://gnp.github.io/psh/ http://gnp.github.io/psh/ [3] https://github.com/jberger/Zoidberg https://github.com/jberger/Zoidberg