Copy code from IPython without leading triple dots

How about using %hist n to print line n (or a range of lines) without prompts (including line continuations), and doing your copy from that? (Simply scrolling back to that line is nearly as good).

In [1]: def foo():
   ...:     return 1+2
   ...: 

In [6]: %history 1
def foo():
    return 1+2