Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > Here, under Windows XP Pro, I'm trying to get used to IDLE. Yesterday I > used Options -> Configure IDLE -> Highlighting to define a custom colour > scheme where each colourable area is defined as some bright colour (fg) on > black (bg). > > In the 'clickable area' that shows the colours in effect for each type of > colourable item, "cursor |" is shown in bright yellow on a black background. > But in the file editing window the cursor never shows up in yellow. > Experiments suggest that the cursor is ALWAYS displayed in black (fg) on > whatever background colour applies.
Try changing this setting, then close and restart IDLE. > I've ended up changing all the other colourable items so they are on a > fairly dark grey background. The cursor is just visible, if you look > closely. It gets more visible if you lighten the background colour but I > don't want to. (I loathe white backgrounds, finding black much more restful > on the eyes). > > Is this a bug, or what? This is a known bug which has been fixed in SVN. Still, thanks for taking the time to report this! Please do tell us about any other issues you run in to. - Tal _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
