I agree completely with Weeble but can continue to live with starting as an editor being a configuration parameter (VIDLE in fact ships with this set to "start in editor").
Note that if you're starting from a command line, you already have a (primitive) shell available: just start Python instead of IDLE. Bruce Sherwood On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Weeble <clockworksa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thoughts? Comments? If there is agreement I will work up a patch. > > Personally, I would slightly prefer that the default behaviour on > starting IDLE via the shortcut in the start menu is to open a blank > document and no shell window. I think of IDLE first and foremost as an > editor, and I prefer it to behave like other editors that start up > with a blank document. But this may be better dealt with by tweaking > the shortcuts/launchers created by the installer. _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
