IPython runs with certain settings by default. These setting are built into Python and are not generally user-visible. In order to modify them, they must be modified in config files. This can be accomplished at the command line, as follows:
ipython profile create <profilename>
This will create a blank file named ipython_config.py in ~/.ipython/profile/default, along with a few directories. IPython is configured, not by a plaintext file in the .conf or .ini format, but by a Python program in its own right. The first line is generally the following:
c = getconfig( )
This calls a special function that is only visible in the configuration file. The rest of the program consists of assignment statements to various objects contained within c. For example, consider this line:
c.TerminalIPythonApp.display_banner = True
It will determine whether IPython will display a banner upon starting or not. While there are too many configuration options for us to go through them all, the...