[issue27170] IDLE: remove Toggle Auto Coloring or add to edit menu & doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Toggling syntax highlighting is part of #6858. Adding it to menu and doc is part of #28097 -- assignee: -> terry.reedy components: +IDLE -2to3 (2.x to 3.x conversion tool) resolution: -> duplicate stage: test needed -> resolved status: open ->

[issue27170] IDLE: remove Toggle Auto Coloring or add to edit menu & doc

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- Removed message: http://bugs.python.org/msg275976 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue27170] IDLE: remove Toggle Auto Coloring or add to edit menu & doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Being able to toggle syntax color on for non-py files would satisfy request #22038. Note that toggle off does not de-colorize, but toggle on colorizes existing code. However, in text file, it selects entire file (^a plus last blank line). Must be

[issue27170] IDLE: remove Toggle Auto Coloring or add to edit menu & doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: #15308 added Interrupt Execution to Shell menu. Pretty easy -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue27170] IDLE: remove Toggle Auto Coloring or add to edit menu & doc

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Looking more, there are lots of editor bindings that are not on the menu that are more important than this. Example: Center insert, ^L, scrolls text to bring insert cursor as close to the middle of the window as possible. It does move the position of the

[issue27170] IDLE: remove Toggle Auto Coloring or add to edit menu & doc

New submission from Terry J. Reedy: On Stackoverflow, person asked why syntax coloring sometimes stopped working, seemingly at random. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37511276/how-to-make-python-idle-editor-to-change-line-colors-according-to-the-color-map The OP finally traced the