Nice to see this mail! I'm a big fan of IDLE though and it's nice to see. I'm not really a IDLE developer yet but I'm boning up on tkinter to try and help out in the future... maybe in time to help out with this.
Did you guys catch this article? I think so cause there are a lot of comments. Anyhow, I dig a lot of the suggestions. http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2011/11/29/the-things-i-hate-about-idle-that-i-wish-someone-would-fix/ On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Roger Serwy <roger.se...@gmail.com> wrote: > IDLE Developers, > > By my count there are over 110 valid open issues against IDLE, some minor > and others major. Let's try to make that number smaller. > > Here is a partial list of issues that have working patches: > > 3573 IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) > instead of file(s)) > 5219 IDLE/Tkinter: edit win stops updating when tooltip is active > 6698 IDLE no longer opens only an edit window when configured to do so > 6699 IDLE: Warn user about overwriting a file that has a newer version on > filesystem > 7136 Idle File Menu Option Improvement > 7676 IDLE shell shouldn't use TABs > 8515 idle "Run Module" (F5) does not set __file__ variable > 8900 IDLE crashes if Preference set to At Startup -> Open Edit Window > 13039 IDLE editor: shell-like behaviour on line starting with ">>>" > 13179 IDLE uses common tkinter variables across all editor windows > 13495 IDLE: Regression - Two ColorDelegator instances loaded > 13506 IDLE sys.path does not contain Current Working Directory > > Can these patches be applied? I understand that there will be need for some > discussion, but we should try to avoid the bike shed problem. > > Not surprisingly, there are a lot of "duplicate" bug reports. Some issues > deal with invalid key bindings and should have a common solution: 4765, > 5707, 6739, 11437, 12387, 13071. (IdleX already has a work-around for these > issues.) Other issues deal with permission error handling of > configHandler.py: 4625, 8231, 9404, 9925. > > One major patch which requires some updating and much consideration is: > 10079 idlelib for Python 3 with Guilherme Polo GSoC enhancements > There are a lot of good improvements in there. > > I am willing to help with fixing the remaining bugs if the IDLE developers > are willing to help as well. > > - Roger > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev -- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. - Abraham Maslow _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
