Is there any way that we can get this functionality into a 2.7 build as well? Most of the books out there for teaching Python (for ill or good) are still under 2.7+. That change sounds great, though! I'll have to check it out on my other machines. I have Mint 11 and Windows 7 / 8 rolling around here. I'll get my Ubuntu updated as well.
I've had a few designers/UX people contact me about wanting to pitch in and take a look at the interface (Julia Elman and Kenneth Love). Not bad for a tweet late on a Friday! On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Todd Rovito <[email protected]> wrote: > Katie and Guido, > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Katie Cunningham <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> "Up arrow moves cursor" has confused every Python developer I've put >>> IDLE in front of. It might be time to rethinking including it, or at >>> least letting us have options for the different behaviors. I would be >>> much more likely to open IDLE if it mimicked my shell more. >> >> >> I agree. I am probably to blame for the original behavior -- I am using the >> shell in Emacs a lot, where up arrow does what it does in IDLE, and you use >> Meta-P (I think, only my fingers know it :-) instead. But the shell behavior >> in a regular terminal window is probably more familiar at this point. >> >> We constrain the Tk text widget in various ways, so if we can do this Id say >> go for it. > As I mentioned earlier in the day issue 2704 had a almost ready to go > patch for Python 3.4: > http://bugs.python.org/issue2704 > > I made three minor changes to it and now I have a nice IDLE shell (as > Katie had described) that allows me to use the arrow keys and > Meta-P/Meta-N!!!! In addition you can turn off the extension via the > options menu then use the arrow keys to move around the shell. This > gives us the best of both worlds and is simply brilliant. Roger Serwy > had done the heavy lifting with the original extension which was added > three years ago! So far I have only tested on Mac OS X and with > Python 3.4 the more people we get to test the issue the higher > probability a Python core developers will make the commit. _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
