Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Hi Cedric, I have been 'considering' for at least 7 years, since the core devs
who then cared about IDLE agreed that tabbed windows would be a good idea. The
direst analogy with programming editors with tabs. Notepad++ is the one I
have used. My impression is that this is pretty standard.
One thing I would not copy from Notepad++ is allowing only one process at a
time, and apparently only one tabbed window in the one process. In intend that
IDLE continue to allow multiple processes with multiple windows. I expect that
'New file' will be replaced with 'New tab' and 'New window', as with FireFox.
I intend that a single window to able to have at least 2 panes. Look at
turtledemo to see what this means. ('python -m turtledemo' or Help =>
Turtledemo in IDLE.) Mentally replace the text and canvas with sets of tabbed
pages, side by side. In fact, for my large widescreen monitor, I want 3 panes
so I can have Shell, file, and test_file visible at once.
I have not yet really considered whether we should use an improved version of
IDLE's tabbedpageset, used for configdialog, Mark's replacement, or ttk
Notebook.
Also see the discussion on #24826.
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