Sean Wolfe added the comment:
fwiw, I like the configuration option. I tend to set idle to editor only, but
the configuration option is useful to me.
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Todd Rovito added the comment:
Thanks for the feedback I am good with closing but want to check with Roger
because he suggested that we open a new issue to discuss.
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Roger Serwy added the comment:
Todd, thank you for opening this issue. Given the feedback, it looks like we
should keep the configuration. Feel free to close the issue.
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Changes by Todd Rovito rovit...@gmail.com:
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New submission from Todd Rovito:
Based on enhancements from this issue:
http://bugs.python.org/issue6698
Comments from Tal Einat
The editor-on-startup config option should be removed. Running IDLE without
arguments should open a shell. If IDLE is asked to open any files for editing,
it
Ronald Oussoren added the comment:
I agree with the change, but keep in mind that at least on OSX a lot of users
start IDLE by double clicking on the IDLE application in the Finder (or
double-clicking a .py file) and as such don't have an easy way to specify the
-e or -i options.
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Guilherme Simões added the comment:
IDLE is widely used by students and should have its most relevant settings
available in the GUI also.
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I think whatever we do should be done on all versions. This is not a 'major
rewrite'.
As I remember, installing Python on Windows adds 'edit with IDLE' to the
right-click context menu. I cannot check at the moment because my substitute
machine only has
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
A corollary of what I said is that if something is a bad idea for 3.3, it is
probably a bad idea for 3.4.
On idle-dev thread Feedback requested on issue 17609: ..., Bruce Sherwood
says For the thousands of students in our intro physics curriculum who use
