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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:39:34 +0200
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On 17.04.2011 20:40, Phil Winder wrote:
> Ok, thanks all. It's a little disappointing, but I guess that you
> always have to work in a different way when you move to a new
> language. Andrea's %edit method is probably the best compromise, but
> this now means that I will have to learn all the (obscure) shortcuts
> for vi!

As you can read in "Python IDE/text-editor" thread. Learning either 
Vim or Emacs will pay off in the long run,

Anyway, IPython honors the $EDITOR environment variable. Just set it 
to whatever editor you prefer.