[issue27465] IDLE:Make help source menu entries unique and sorted.

[Tal Einat]

Change by Tal Einat :


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[issue27465] IDLE:Make help source menu entries unique and sorted.

[Tal Einat]

Tal Einat  added the comment:

> I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to add Drag and Drop functionality to 
> the Help listbox to allow users to move the items into any order they want?

I agree that allowing a user to set the order is preferable.

Rather than drag, we could just add up/down buttons to allow re-ordering.

I suggest making ordering a separate issue, and accepting a simplified version 
of the PR which just ensures the names are unique.

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[issue27465] IDLE:Make help source menu entries unique and sorted.

[Zackery Spytz]

Zackery Spytz  added the comment:

I have created a pull request for this issue.  Please consider taking a look.

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[issue27465] IDLE:Make help source menu entries unique and sorted.

[Zackery Spytz]

Change by Zackery Spytz :


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pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17093

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[issue27465] IDLE:Make help source menu entries unique and sorted.

[Cheryl Sabella]

Cheryl Sabella  added the comment:

> Currently, names are displayed in the order added.  I believe sorting would 
> be better, especially when one adds more than 2 entries.  That should also be 
> easy.

I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to add Drag and Drop functionality to 
the Help listbox to allow users to move the items into any order they want?

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[issue27465] IDLE:Make help source menu entries unique and sorted.

[Terry J. Reedy]

Changes by Terry J. Reedy :


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[issue27465] IDLE:Make help source menu entries unique and sorted.

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

The IDLE doc currently says "Additional help sources may be added here with the 
Configure IDLE dialog under the General tab."  Revise to something like

Additional help sources
   Menu items for display here are added on the General tap of Options => 
Configure IDLE.  Menu entries should be unique (new in 3.6) and will be sorted. 
Documents can be located either on the current machine or on the internet.  The 
allowed file types may depend on the system.  Local file paths are checked when 
submitted; internet addresses are not.

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[issue27465] IDLE:Make help source menu entries unique and sorted.

[Terry J. Reedy]

New submission from Terry J. Reedy:

The 'General' tab of the IDLE configuration menu allows a user to add entries 
to the Help menu that display a text when clicked.  A user might want more than 
one text available for a given 'topic', such as a doc and how-to for a package. 
 However, there is no need to have duplicate entries, as up to 30 chars are 
allowed.  "Package - doc" and "Package - how" would be clearer than "Package" 
and "Package".  Issue 27380 makes checking for unique entries easy as that is 
already done for user configuration file section names and the same base class 
is now used for help source names.

Currently, names are displayed in the order added.  I believe sorting would be 
better, especially when one adds more than 2 entries.  That should also be easy.

Existing duplicates would not be a problem for IDLE as the check would only 
apply when adding or editing an item.  Python's stable list.sort would keep 
existing duplicates in the same relative order.  I will *not* use the doc path 
to break ties.

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messages: 269965
nosy: terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: IDLE:Make help source menu entries unique and sorted.
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6

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