Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I want to recast this as a doc issue. The BINDINGS section of http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/text.htm, near the bottom, has a list with 33 numbered items. The main categories of action include selection modification, cursor movement, and text deletion. Minor categories include insertion, transposition, undo/redo. However, the items are not neatly grouped this way.
Some of these actions are IDLE menu items and are listed in the IDLE menu doc. Many more are documented in https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html#editing-and-navigation. Some useful actions, such as ^t Tranposition Right, are omitted. Some of this IDLE doc is wrong, at least for IDLE, at least on Windows. For instance, at least on Windows, ^a in IDLE is Select All, not Move Beginning of Line. For working on IDLE, it would be very helpful to have a *categorized* listing of class-bound actions that are verified to work for tkinter Text, with notes on any OS differences. I can then check what works on IDLE and how it changes the bindings on either some or all systems. I can and someday will do this for Windows, but I currently would need help for other OSes. To help people avoid clashes such as Nick ran into, the tkinter doc should also have a sorted and abbreviated list of bound event sequences. "Text comes with bindings for the following event sequences for keys: Control-a, ..., z; Control-Shift-?, ...,z, Meta-...(Unix), Command-...(Mac). For mice, ..." Follow with a note on what can or cannot be unbound and the need to use 'break' when overriding. A function to produce for IDLE a similar list that includes IDLE's system-specific add-ons and a user's customizations, would be a separate but very useful issue. Not knowing current bindings makes customization hard. Another spinoff issue would be making actions available via the IDLE menu system. ---------- assignee: docs@python -> terry.reedy stage: -> needs patch title: Tkinter spoils the input text -> Document default tk Text class bindings for tkinter and IDLE versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26085> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
