Re: [Idle-dev] Feedback appreciated for two suggested new features

2019-06-06 Thread Tal Einat
After a great delay, I've created an issue[0] about the search dialogs being hidden behind the main window, and have a PR[1] up with a proposed fix. [0] https://bugs.python.org/issue37177 [1] https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/13869 On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:13 PM Irv Kalb wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: [Idle-dev] Feedback appreciated for two suggested new features

2018-10-18 Thread Irv Kalb
Hi, I don't have a strong opinion about the details of the search and replace dialogs. However, I can tell you that a change replacing the dialog box would be greatly appreciated. I teach Python classes using IDLE. The search dialog is a real a problem for new students and me as the teacher.

Re: [Idle-dev] Feedback appreciated for two suggested new features

2018-10-17 Thread Tal Einat
Hi Mark! On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:32 PM Mark Roseman wrote: > On Oct 16, 2018, at 1:46 AM, Tal Einat wrote: > Our current find dialog isn't much clearer than a search bar: > > For comparison, here's what the search bar in the current PR looks like on > Windows: > > Thanks for posting the image

Re: [Idle-dev] Feedback appreciated for two suggested new features

2018-10-17 Thread Mark Roseman
> On Oct 16, 2018, at 1:46 AM, Tal Einat wrote: > Our current find dialog isn't much clearer than a search bar: > For comparison, here's what the search bar in the current PR looks like on > Windows: Thanks for posting the images. While I’m not a big fan of the existing dialogs, I think when

Re: [Idle-dev] Feedback appreciated for two suggested new features

2018-10-16 Thread Tal Einat
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:30 AM Mark Roseman wrote: > > 1. Replace the search and replace dialogs with a search bar > > > I personally like those, at least for simple search. > > I’d be a bit more cautious when it comes to a full find/replace with > options. One of the nice advantages of dialogs i

Re: [Idle-dev] Feedback appreciated for two suggested new features

2018-10-15 Thread Mark Roseman
> 1. Replace the search and replace dialogs with a search bar I personally like those, at least for simple search. I’d be a bit more cautious when it comes to a full find/replace with options. One of the nice advantages of dialogs is that they’re large enough to provide meaningful labels on e

Re: [Idle-dev] Feedback appreciated for two suggested new features

2018-10-14 Thread Tal Einat
Hi Michael, On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 5:54 PM Michiel Overtoom wrote: > What I regularly miss in IDLE is an option to search/replace within the > selected text only. > I've noticed such a feature in some IDEs lately, though I don't normally use it. It seems to me that this feature could be imple

Re: [Idle-dev] Feedback appreciated for two suggested new features

2018-10-14 Thread Michiel Overtoom
Hi, > On 2018-10-13, at 23:51, Tal Einat wrote: > > 1. Replace the search and replace dialogs with a search bar > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Nice! What I regularly miss in IDLE is an option to search/replace within the selected text only. Greetings, -- "You can't actually m