[issue46594] Windows "Edit with IDLE >" only has one selection

Steve Dower added the comment: True. I guess we need to dig a little deeper to find a cause here. Any other ideas? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue46594] Windows "Edit with IDLE >" only has one selection

Eryk Sun added the comment: > the Open With entries may not be being merged. That would probably be a bug in the Windows shell API. The HKCU and HKLM subkeys of "Software\Classes\Python.File\Shell\editwithidle\shell" are merged in the HKCR view. The same key path can exist in both hives,

[issue46594] Windows "Edit with IDLE >" only has one selection

Steve Dower added the comment: I wonder if you've managed to install the launcher a second time? If the second one is for current user but the first is for local machine, the Open With entries may not be being merged. In theory, the installer is supposed to detect a previous launcher and

[issue46594] Windows "Edit with IDLE >" only has one selection

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The registry settings should be correctly set by the installer. The bug is that they are not. I don't touch the registry, and the last 3 versions are less than 2 weeks old. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue46594] Windows "Edit with IDLE >" only has one selection

Eryk Sun added the comment: Check your settings in the registry. In "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts" there should be a ".py" key, but not necessarily. It should have an "OpenWithList" subkey that contains an "MRUList" value (most recently used list). The

[issue46594] Windows "Edit with IDLE >" only has one selection

New submission from Terry J. Reedy : I have Python and hence IDLE 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11 installed. When I right click a .py file, and then on "Edit with IDLE >" the sub-menu only has '3.11.0a4' listed. This negates the purpose of having a submenu. I did some search of previous issues