[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for "Additional help sources" menu items

[Terry J. Reedy]

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[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for Additional help sources menu items

[Terry J. Reedy]

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[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for Additional help sources menu items

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[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for Additional help sources menu items

[Roger Serwy]

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[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for Additional help sources menu items

[Rostyslav Dzinko]

New submission from Rostyslav Dzinko:

There's a possibility to add additional help sources in IDLE via

Options - Configure IDLE... - General - Additional Help Sources

Use case:

 If someone wants to download certain version of Python documentation in HTML 
 and specify local index.html to be opened by custom menu item which appears 
 the in Help menu.

Problem:

 It's not possible to assign custom hot-key (Options - Configure IDLE... - 
 Keys) for such menu items or reassign F1 to that new menu-item, which 
 actually makes sense when talking in context of the use case specified above.

This use case was taken from real life (stackoverflow site):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12174255/linking-offline-documentation-to-idle-linux

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nosy: Rostyslav.Dzinko
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Possibility of setting custom key bindings for Additional help sources 
menu items
type: enhancement
versions: 3rd party, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 
3.3, Python 3.4

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[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for Additional help sources menu items

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[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for Additional help sources menu items

[Ned Deily]

Ned Deily added the comment:

Actually, IDLE does have code to look for an on-disk copy of the html-formatted 
Python documentation set but the paths are platform-specific and, in the Linux 
case, are out-of-date for some distributions at least.  For Linux platforms it 
looks for `index.html` in either `/var/www/html/python` or 
`/usr/share/doc/python-docs-x.y/Doc/`.  On current Debian systems, for example, 
the Python doc package is installed in `/usr/share/doc/pythonx.y-doc/html`.  If 
you install the doc packages and then create a link, IDLE should find the docs 
off-line when you select `Python Docs` from the `Help` manual.  For example, 
for Python 3.3 you *could* do:

sudo aptitude install python3.3-doc
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/python3.3-doc/html python

That said, the default locations should be updated. And perhaps a more useful 
customization would be to add a user configuration option for where to look for 
the on-disk copy of the docs rather than adding another hot key. (Also, older 
versions of Python are in security fix mode only.)

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[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for Additional help sources menu items

[Ned Deily]

Ned Deily added the comment:

Here's a patch to update the doc paths to include current ones for 
Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora.  The patch will have to be tweaked a bit for 3.2/2.7 
to change sys.base_prefix to sys.prefix.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27051/issue15808_idle_doc_paths.patch

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[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for Additional help sources menu items

[Ned Deily]

Changes by Ned Deily n...@acm.org:


Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file27051/issue15808_idle_doc_paths.patch

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Changes by Ned Deily n...@acm.org:


Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27052/issue15808_idle_doc_paths.patch

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