Hi, Thanks for the clarification.
Regards. > On 24 Nov 2019, at 22:22, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > On 11/23/2019 4:14 PM, Nuno Ferreira wrote: > >> When I write a script and save it, IDLE wants by default to save it in >> ~/Documents (as listed by File > Path Browser). Is there a way to change >> this default location to something different ? > > AFAIK, the following are true. Every window that can be saved has a default > save directory. When you open an existing file, the default is the directory > it came from. When you save a file, it is the directory you save in. When > you open a new file, it is the default directory of existing active window. > So you set the initial default save location for a file by which window you > use to open it. I don't want to change and of the above. > > The default save location for unsaved Shell windows, an windows opened from > them, depends on the OS and how it is installed. For me, on Windows, it is > the directory containing the python?.exe or pythonw.exe running IDLE. From > the screenshot, you are working on macOS, and there the default default, > ~/Documents, is better. It has been proposed to match that on other systems. > Making this default default user configurable would be a further enhancement. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
