Re: Help with "alternative" ipython session workflow

[Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com>]

The settings described at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-05/msg00793.html
seem to work for me. (I replaced "--pylab=osx" with "--pylab" since
I'm on Linux.)

Best
Ista

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Giacomo M <jackjackk@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never been able to make org sessions getting along properly with
> ipython, so at the moment I'm using a sort of handmade hybrid between org
> and an ipython notebook, doing the following:
> 1. Enter the first source block in a .org file
> 2. Start an ipython instance with C-c C-c
> 3. Keep the org/src buffer and *Python* buffer side by side
> 4. Copy paragraph of code around cursor (keeping cursor in position) (I
> usually split sections of code I want to run individually with spaces)
> 5. Select *Python* buffer
> 6. Go to last position
> 7. Type %paste
> 8. Go back to other buffer (src/org)
>
> I probably sound like a caveman doing this over and over, but this is the
> most stable setup I could find. Plus I keep experimenting w/ code, and this
> gives me a very interactive environment. Macros helped me to automatize
> steps 4-8, but still it's not very flexible, e.g. I need the side-by-side
> buffers, with ipython already running.
>
> I was wondering whether anybody has any suggestions to improve this (and
> make me save some minutes of life every day), or any good reference to make
> ipython work smoothly with org src blocks
>
> Thanks,
>
> Giacomo
>