I found the console plugin useful for trying to figure out what attributes the different exaile options had, and for testing functions in exaile, but I missed the convenience of IPython's tab auto-complete, ? function, and history (pressing up). So I took the console plugin and upgraded it to an IPython console plugin. Even though it isn't shown in the namespace (I don't know why), APP is exposed to the console as 'exaile', and the window itself is exposed to the console.
I made the colors match what I get on my computer (dark gnome-terminal), but they can be changed easily enough in the code. I might add some preferences to change that for 0.3
attached archive has:
ipconsole.py - plugin
ipconsole/ipython_view.py - handles the IPython stuff
Just extract in the .exaile/plugins directory.
Oh and you need to have IPython installed (http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/). It's in the Ubuntu repos.
Here's the plugin for the current build of of exaile. It will have to be modified if the 'Tools menu' widget in the glade file gets renamed from menuitem5 :).
Should behave (almost) like a normal IPython terminal. Zip files has directory ipconsole/ - just put it in exaile/plugins/
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