Updated NEWS as Terry Reedy recommended. Thank you, Terry. On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 3/30/2012 2:31 PM, Andrew Svetlov wrote: >> >> Thank you for mentoring. >> >> I will fix NEWS if you help me with better text. > > > I believe a succint message would be > > Issue 14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window when it > cannot read the normal config files on startup and has to use the built-in > default key bindings. There was previously a bug in one of the defaults. > > >> The bug fixed is that commit is: >> IDLE has 3 configs: user, system default and hardcoded in python code. >> Last one had bad binding for<Return> key. >> Usually this config is never used: user or system ones overrides former. >> But if IDLE cannot open config files by some reason it switches to >> hardcoded configs and user got broken IDLE. >> >> Can anybody guess me short and descriptive message describing what fix >> well? >> >> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Nick Coghlan<ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:01 AM, andrew.svetlov >>> <python-check...@python.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> +- Issue #14409: IDLE doesn't not execute commands from shell, >>>> + error with default keybinding for Return. (Patch by Roger Serwy) >>> >>> >>> The double negative here makes this impossible to understand. Could we >>> please get an updated NEWS entry that explains what actually changed >>> in IDLE to fix this? >>> >>> Perhaps something like "IDLE now always sets the default keybind for >>> Return correctly, ensuring commands can be executed in the IDLE shell >>> window"? (assuming that's what happened). >>> >>> This is important, folks: NEWS entries need to be comprehensible for >>> people that *haven't* read the associated tracker issue. This means >>> that issue titles (which generally describe a problem someone was >>> having) are often inappropriate as NEWS items. NEWS items should be >>> short descriptions that clearly describe *what changed*, perhaps with >>> some additional information to explain a bit about why the change was >>> made. > > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-checkins mailing list > python-check...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-checkins
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