[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 755caaa753577b907bb7e94560f8adf5eb694d6b by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-38636: Fix IDLE tab toggle and file indent width (GH-17008) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/755caaa753577b907bb7e94560f8adf5eb694d6b --

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 132243957ce834cf5ffced4bf8e39d00f6e34e5f by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-38636: Fix IDLE tab toggle and file indent width (GH-17008) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/132243957ce834cf5ffced4bf8e39d00f6e34e5f --

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +16768 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17275 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: New changeset b8462477bfd01ff21461065d5063e6b0238ca809 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'master': bpo-38636: Fix IDLE tab toggle and file indent width (GH-17008) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b8462477bfd01ff21461065d5063e6b0238ca809 --

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +16767 stage: test needed -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17274 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The old, long discussion of Shell indents is #7676 and a preceding issue reference therein. My replacement is #37892. The PR patch is simple enough to apply by to existing 3.7.5 and 3.8.0 installs. -- stage: patch review -> test needed

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +16533 stage: test needed -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17008 ___ Python tracker

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Interesting. The result of making these changes is legal code looking like >>> if a: if b: c = 3 This has been proposed as the way Shell should work, but rejected as likely too confusing to beginners as the indented code does not look indented

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

Stephen Paul Chappell added the comment: When I start IDLE and the shell window appears, my first task is to press "Alt + T" to change from using tabs to spaces and then "Alt + U" to change from using 8 spaces to 4. This allows code pasted from the shell into an editor window or other IDE

[issue38636] IDLE regression: toggle tabs and change indent width functions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Both the menu items and the short cuts for these two functions on the Format menu give these call errors. They are only visible if IDLE is started from a console. They work in 3.6; the regression is due to #36390. These 2 functions were moved separately