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So many terminal applications bind q to exit, even the python debugger, its
muscle memory for me. But to exit ipython I have to type out exit<ENTER>.
This is fine, but since q is muscle memory for me I get this error a few times
per day.
╭─────────────────────────────── Traceback (most recent call last) ────────────────────────────────╮ │ <ipython-input-1-2b66fd261ee5>:1 in <module> │ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ NameError: name 'q' is not defined
After digging way too deep into how IPython implements its ExitAutoCall I
realized there was a very simple solution here. IPython automatically
imports all the scripts you put in your profile directory, all I needed was to
create ~/.ipython/profile_default/startup/q.py with the following.
q = exit
It was that simple. This is not a game changer by any means, but I will now
see one less error in my workflow. I just press q<Enter> and I am out,
without error.