[issue45357] Idle does not check user config for extention configuration

CoolCat467 added the comment: In a classroom circumstance, yes, that kind of makes sense, but at the moment, if you want to add an extension you have to either manually edit the file, or let a automated script touch your entire system with root permissions that could be doing who knows what

[issue45357] Idle does not check user config for extention configuration

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The current configuration design is that user .idlerc config-x.cfg files contain changes from the idlelib config-x.def files. A proposal to change this is an enhancement request rather than a bugfix request. It will make the logic more complex, increase

[issue45357] Idle does not check user config for extention configuration

CoolCat467 added the comment: Yes, changing settings on ZzDummy works correctly, but this is because an entry for it exists in the default config file. The problem is when if you attempt to add a new extension through the user config file. When IDLE is looking for extensions to load, it

[issue45357] Idle does not check user config for extention configuration

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I am puzzled by your report. As explained in the top of idlelib/confix-extensions.def, the options for four features are still defined there for compatibility reasons and user changes to those option *are* stored in ~/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg and read

[issue45357] Idle does not check user config for extention configuration

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[issue45357] Idle does not check user config for extention configuration

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[issue45357] Idle does not check user config for extention configuration

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[issue45357] Idle does not check user config for extention configuration

New submission from CoolCat467 : I was trying to write an extension for Idle, and was noticing extension keys defined in ~/.idlerc weren't being used, so I looked into it and found that in idlelib.config.idleConf, `GetExtensionKeys`, `__GetRawExtensionKeys`, and `GetKeyBinding` would never