Thanks for the quick response, I'll try to special edit mode. Cheers, M --- Sent from my iPhone I apologize in advance for any typos or spellings errors On Mar 5, 2017, at 10:58 AM, John Kitchin > wrote: I am not sure what you mean. (elpy-enable) in an init file does it for me. It is only active in the special edit mode, e.g. C-c ' in the code block. John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Doyley, Marvin M. > wrote: Doesn't anybody know how to enable elpy mode when writing python or ipython code blocks. Thanks, M Sent from my iPad