rehashing now done by the config file alone - providing the system

commands even without pysh typically makes sense.

IPython/Extensions/InterpreterExec.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 b' We define a special input line filter to allow typing lines which begin with'
 '~', '/' or '.'. If one of those strings is encountered, it is automatically
 executed.
 
-$Id: InterpreterExec.py 994 2006-01-08 08:29:44Z fperez $"""
+$Id: InterpreterExec.py 1039 2006-01-20 23:59:33Z vivainio $"""
 
 #*****************************************************************************
 #       Copyright (C) 2004 W.J. van der Laan <[e-mail]>
@@ -242,19 +242,20 b' help(pysh) -> help on the installed shell extensions and syntax.'
 #  Set the 'cd' command to quiet mode, a more shell-like behavior
 __IPYTHON__.default_option('cd','-q')
 
+# This is redundant, ipy_user_conf.py will determine this
 # Load all of $PATH as aliases
-if os.name == 'posix':
-    # %rehash is very fast, but it doesn't check for executability, it simply
-    # dumps everything in $PATH as an alias. Use rehashx if you want more
-    # checks.
-    __IPYTHON__.magic_rehash()
-else:
-    # Windows users: the list of extensions considered executable is read from
-    # the environment variable 'pathext'.  If this is undefined, IPython
-    # defaults to EXE, COM and BAT.
-    # %rehashx is the one which does extension analysis, at the cost of
-    # being much slower than %rehash.
-    __IPYTHON__.magic_rehashx()
+#if os.name == 'posix':
+#    # %rehash is very fast, but it doesn't check for executability, it simply
+#    # dumps everything in $PATH as an alias. Use rehashx if you want more
+#    # checks.
+#    __IPYTHON__.magic_rehash()
+#else:
+#    # Windows users: the list of extensions considered executable is read from
+#    # the environment variable 'pathext'.  If this is undefined, IPython
+#    # defaults to EXE, COM and BAT.
+#    # %rehashx is the one which does extension analysis, at the cost of
+#    # being much slower than %rehash.
+#    __IPYTHON__.magic_rehashx()
 
 # Remove %sc,%sx if present as aliases
 __IPYTHON__.magic_unalias('sc')

IPython/UserConfig/ipy_user_conf.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 b' empty.'
 
 import IPython.ipapi as ip
 
+import os
 
 o = ip.options()
 # autocall 1 ('smart') is default anyway, this is just an 
@@ -37,7 +38,12 b" if o.profile == 'pysh':"
 
 ip.magic('alias d ls -F --color=auto')
 
-# Make available all system commands. You can comment this line out to speed up 
-# startup on slow machines, and to conserve a bit of memory
+# Make available all system commands through "rehashing" immediately. 
+# You can comment these lines out to speed up startup on very slow 
+# machines, and to conserve a bit of memory.
 
-ip.magic('rehashx')
  No newline at end of file
+if os.name=='posix':
+    ip.magic('rehash')
+else:
+    #slightly slower, but better results esp. with Windows
+    ip.magic('rehashx')