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1What's New in IDLE 2.7.5?
2=========================
3
4- Issue #17390: Display Python version on Idle title bar.
5 Initial patch by Edmond Burnett.
6
7
8What's New in IDLE 2.7.4?
9=========================
10
11- Issue #15318: Prevent writing to sys.stdin.
12
13- Issue #13532, #15319: Check that arguments to sys.stdout.write are strings.
14
15- Issue # 12510: Attempt to get certain tool tips no longer crashes IDLE.
16
17- Issue10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when
18 parent window is closed while dialog is open.
19
20- Issue 14876: use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
21
22- Issue #14018: Update checks for unstable system Tcl/Tk versions on OS X
23 to include versions shipped with OS X 10.7 and 10.8 in addition to 10.6.
24
25- Issue #15853: Prevent IDLE crash on OS X when opening Preferences menu
26 with certain versions of Tk 8.5. Initial patch by Kevin Walzer.
27
28
29What's New in IDLE 2.7.3?
30=========================
31
32- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
33 when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
34 has to use the built-in default key bindings.
35 There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
36
37- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
38 (directory(ies) instead of file(s)).
39
40
41What's New in IDLE 2.7.2?
42=========================
43
44*Release date: 29-May-2011*
45
46- Issue #6378: Further adjust idle.bat to start associated Python
47
48- Issue #11896: Save on Close failed despite selecting "Yes" in dialog.
49
50- <Home> toggle failing on Tk 8.5, causing IDLE exits and strange selection
51 behavior. Issue 4676. Improve selection extension behaviour.
52
53- <Home> toggle non-functional when NumLock set on Windows. Issue 3851.
54
55
56What's New in IDLE 2.7?
57=======================
58
59*Release date: 07-03-2010*
60
61- idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental
62 versions of IDLE which are not installed in the standard location.
63
64- OutputWindow/PyShell right click menu "Go to file/line" wasn't working with
65 file paths containing spaces. Bug 5559.
66
67- Windows: Version string for the .chm help file changed, file not being
68 accessed Patch 5783 Guilherme Polo
69
70- Allow multiple IDLE GUI/subprocess pairs to exist simultaneously. Thanks to
71 David Scherer for suggesting the use of an ephemeral port for the GUI.
72 Patch 1529142 Weeble.
73
74- Remove port spec from run.py and fix bug where subprocess fails to
75 extract port from command line when warnings are present.
76
77- Tk 8.5 Text widget requires 'wordprocessor' tabstyle attr to handle
78 mixed space/tab properly. Issue 5129, patch by Guilherme Polo.
79
80- Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present
81
82
83What's New in IDLE 2.6?
84=======================
85
86*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
87
88- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version
89 would not start if a custom theme was defined.
90
91- Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white
92 space. Patch 1196903 Jeff Shute.
93
94- Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic. Patch 2062 Tal Einat.
95
96- Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the
97 '/' char on Windows. Patch 2061 Tal Einat.
98
99What's New in IDLE 2.6a1?
100=========================
101
102*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
103
104- Configured selection highlighting colors were ignored; updating highlighting
105 in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they
106 were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator. Patch 1334. Tal Einat.
107
108- ScriptBinding event handlers weren't returning 'break'. Patch 2050, Tal Einat.
109
110- There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647.
111
112- Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows.
113 Issue 1743, Issue 1862.
114
115- Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding. Patch 1457 Tal Einat.
116
117- tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows
118 of tabs. Patch 1612746 Tal Einat.
119
120- Add confirmation dialog before printing. Patch 1717170 Tal Einat.
121
122- Show paste position if > 80 col. Patch 1659326 Tal Einat.
123
124- Update cursor color without restarting. Patch 1725576 Tal Einat.
125
126- Allow keyboard interrupt only when user code is executing in subprocess.
127 Patch 1225 Tal Einat (reworked from IDLE-Spoon).
128
129- configDialog cleanup. Patch 1730217 Tal Einat.
130
131- textView cleanup. Patch 1718043 Tal Einat.
132
133- Clean up EditorWindow close.
134
135- Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X. Backport of r56204.
136
137- OSX: Avoid crash for those versions of Tcl/Tk which don't have a console
138
139- Bug in idlelib.MultiCall: Options dialog was crashing IDLE if there was an
140 option in config-extensions w/o a value. Patch #1672481, Tal Einat
141
142- Corrected some bugs in AutoComplete. Also, Page Up/Down in ACW implemented;
143 mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts
144 current selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll
145 wheel now works in ACW. Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help.
146
147- AutoCompleteWindow moved below input line, will move above if there
148 isn't enough space. Patch 1621265 Tal Einat
149
150- Calltips now 'handle' tuples in the argument list (display '<tuple>' :)
151 Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968.
152
153- Add 'raw' support to configHandler. Patch 1650174 Tal Einat.
154
155- Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112.
156
157- Patch #1362975: Rework CodeContext indentation algorithm to
158 avoid hard-coding pixel widths.
159
160- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
161 is started with that option.
162
163- Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092)
164
165- Some syntax errors were being caught by tokenize during the tabnanny
166 check, resulting in obscure error messages. Do the syntax check
167 first. Bug 1562716, 1562719
168
169- IDLE's version number takes a big jump to match the version number of
170 the Python release of which it's a part.
171
172
173What's New in IDLE 1.2?
174=======================
175
176*Release date: 19-SEP-2006*
177
178
179What's New in IDLE 1.2c1?
180=========================
181
182*Release date: 17-AUG-2006*
183
184- File menu hotkeys: there were three 'p' assignments. Reassign the
185 'Save Copy As' and 'Print' hotkeys to 'y' and 't'. Change the
186 Shell hotkey from 's' to 'l'.
187
188- IDLE honors new quit() and exit() commands from site.py Quitter() object.
189 Patch 1540892, Jim Jewett
190
191- The 'with' statement is now a Code Context block opener.
192 Patch 1540851, Jim Jewett
193
194- Retrieval of previous shell command was not always preserving indentation
195 (since 1.2a1) Patch 1528468 Tal Einat.
196
197- Changing tokenize (39046) to detect dedent broke tabnanny check (since 1.2a1)
198
199- ToggleTab dialog was setting indent to 8 even if cancelled (since 1.2a1).
200
201- When used w/o subprocess, all exceptions were preceded by an error
202 message claiming they were IDLE internal errors (since 1.2a1).
203
204What's New in IDLE 1.2b3?
205=========================
206
207*Release date: 03-AUG-2006*
208
209- Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips.
210
211- Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly
212
213- Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a
214 path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X
215
216- EditorWindow.test() was failing. Bug 1417598
217
218- EditorWindow failed when used stand-alone if sys.ps1 not set.
219 Bug 1010370 Dave Florek
220
221- Tooltips failed on new-syle class __init__ args. Bug 1027566 Loren Guthrie
222
223- Avoid occasional failure to detect closing paren properly.
224 Patch 1407280 Tal Einat
225
226- Rebinding Tab key was inserting 'tab' instead of 'Tab'. Bug 1179168.
227
228- Colorizer now handles #<builtin> correctly, also unicode strings and
229 'as' keyword in comment directly following import command. Closes 1325071.
230 Patch 1479219 Tal Einat
231
232What's New in IDLE 1.2b2?
233=========================
234
235*Release date: 11-JUL-2006*
236
237What's New in IDLE 1.2b1?
238=========================
239
240*Release date: 20-JUN-2006*
241
242What's New in IDLE 1.2a2?
243=========================
244
245*Release date: 27-APR-2006*
246
247What's New in IDLE 1.2a1?
248=========================
249
250*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
251
252- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
253
254- Source file f.flush() after writing; trying to avoid lossage if user
255 kills GUI.
256
257- Options / Keys / Advanced dialog made functional. Also, allow binding
258 of 'movement' keys.
259
260- 'syntax' patch adds improved calltips and a new class attribute listbox.
261 MultiCall module allows binding multiple actions to an event.
262 Patch 906702 Noam Raphael
263
264- Better indentation after first line of string continuation.
265 IDLEfork Patch 681992, Noam Raphael
266
267- Fixed CodeContext alignment problem, following suggestion from Tal Einat.
268
269- Increased performance in CodeContext extension Patch 936169 Noam Raphael
270
271- Mac line endings were incorrect when pasting code from some browsers
272 when using X11 and the Fink distribution. Python Bug 1263656.
273
274- <Enter> when cursor is on a previous command retrieves that command. Instead
275 of replacing the input line, the previous command is now appended to the
276 input line. Indentation is preserved, and undo is enabled.
277 Patch 1196917 Jeff Shute
278
279- Clarify "tab/space" Error Dialog and "Tab Width" Dialog associated with
280 the Untabify command.
281
282- Corrected "tab/space" Error Dialog to show correct menu for Untabify.
283 Patch 1196980 Jeff Shute
284
285- New files are colorized by default, and colorizing is removed when
286 saving as non-Python files. Patch 1196895 Jeff Shute
287 Closes Python Bugs 775012 and 800432, partial fix IDLEfork 763524
288
289- Improve subprocess link error notification.
290
291- run.py: use Queue's blocking feature instead of sleeping in the main
292 loop. Patch # 1190163 Michiel de Hoon
293
294- Add config-main option to make the 'history' feature non-cyclic.
295 Default remains cyclic. Python Patch 914546 Noam Raphael.
296
297- Removed ability to configure tabs indent from Options dialog. This 'feature'
298 has never worked and no one has complained. It is still possible to set a
299 default tabs (v. spaces) indent 'manually' via config-main.def (or to turn on
300 tabs for the current EditorWindow via the Format menu) but IDLE will
301 encourage indentation via spaces.
302
303- Enable setting the indentation width using the Options dialog.
304 Bug # 783877
305
306- Add keybindings for del-word-left and del-word-right.
307
308- Discourage using an indent width other than 8 when using tabs to indent
309 Python code.
310
311- Restore use of EditorWindow.set_indentation_params(), was dead code since
312 Autoindent was merged into EditorWindow. This allows IDLE to conform to the
313 indentation width of a loaded file. (But it still will not switch to tabs
314 even if the file uses tabs.) Any change in indent width is local to that
315 window.
316
317- Add Tabnanny check before Run/F5, not just when Checking module.
318
319- If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of
320 erroring out.
321
322- Improve error handling when .idlerc can't be created (warn and exit).
323
324- The GUI was hanging if the shell window was closed while a raw_input()
325 was pending. Restored the quit() of the readline() mainloop().
326 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2004-December/002307.html
327
328- The remote procedure call module rpc.py can now access data attributes of
329 remote registered objects. Changes to these attributes are local, however.
330
331What's New in IDLE 1.1?
332=======================
333
334*Release date: 30-NOV-2004*
335
336- On OpenBSD, terminating IDLE with ctrl-c from the command line caused a
337 stuck subprocess MainThread because only the SocketThread was exiting.
338
339What's New in IDLE 1.1b3/rc1?
340=============================
341
342*Release date: 18-NOV-2004*
343
344- Saving a Keyset w/o making changes (by using the "Save as New Custom Key Set"
345 button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in
346 config-keys.cfg). Also true for Theme/highlights. Python Bug 1064535.
347
348- A change to the linecache.py API caused IDLE to exit when an exception was
349 raised while running without the subprocess (-n switch). Python Bug 1063840.
350
351What's New in IDLE 1.1b2?
352=========================
353
354*Release date: 03-NOV-2004*
355
356- When paragraph reformat width was made configurable, a bug was
357 introduced that caused reformatting of comment blocks to ignore how
358 far the block was indented, effectively adding the indentation width
359 to the reformat width. This has been repaired, and the reformat
360 width is again a bound on the total width of reformatted lines.
361
362What's New in IDLE 1.1b1?
363=========================
364
365*Release date: 15-OCT-2004*
366
367
368What's New in IDLE 1.1a3?
369=========================
370
371*Release date: 02-SEP-2004*
372
373- Improve keyboard focus binding, especially in Windows menu. Improve
374 window raising, especially in the Windows menu and in the debugger.
375 IDLEfork 763524.
376
377- If user passes a non-existent filename on the commandline, just
378 open a new file, don't raise a dialog. IDLEfork 854928.
379
380
381What's New in IDLE 1.1a2?
382=========================
383
384*Release date: 05-AUG-2004*
385
386- EditorWindow.py was not finding the .chm help file on Windows. Typo
387 at Rev 1.54. Python Bug 990954
388
389- checking sys.platform for substring 'win' was breaking IDLE docs on Mac
390 (darwin). Also, Mac Safari browser requires full file:// URIs. SF 900580.
391
392
393What's New in IDLE 1.1a1?
394=========================
395
396*Release date: 08-JUL-2004*
397
398- Redirect the warning stream to the shell during the ScriptBinding check of
399 user code and format the warning similarly to an exception for both that
400 check and for runtime warnings raised in the subprocess.
401
402- CodeContext hint pane visibility state is now persistent across sessions.
403 The pane no longer appears in the shell window. Added capability to limit
404 extensions to shell window or editor windows. Noam Raphael addition
405 to Patch 936169.
406
407- Paragraph reformat width is now a configurable parameter in the
408 Options GUI.
409
410- New Extension: CodeContext. Provides block structuring hints for code
411 which has scrolled above an edit window. Patch 936169 Noam Raphael.
412
413- If nulls somehow got into the strings in recent-files.lst
414 EditorWindow.update_recent_files_list() was failing. Python Bug 931336.
415
416- If the normal background is changed via Configure/Highlighting, it will
417 update immediately, thanks to the previously mentioned patch by Nigel Rowe.
418
419- Add a highlight theme for builtin keywords. Python Patch 805830 Nigel Rowe
420 This also fixed IDLEfork bug [ 693418 ] Normal text background color not
421 refreshed and Python bug [897872 ] Unknown color name on HP-UX
422
423- rpc.py:SocketIO - Large modules were generating large pickles when downloaded
424 to the execution server. The return of the OK response from the subprocess
425 initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not
426 ready. Add an IO ready test to fix this. Moved the polling IO ready test
427 into pollpacket().
428
429- Fix typo in rpc.py, s/b "pickle.PicklingError" not "pickle.UnpicklingError".
430
431- Added a Tk error dialog to run.py inform the user if the subprocess can't
432 connect to the user GUI process. Added a timeout to the GUI's listening
433 socket. Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind
434 the port or connect to the subprocess. Clean up error handling during
435 connection initiation phase. This is an update of Python Patch 778323.
436
437- Print correct exception even if source file changed since shell was
438 restarted. IDLEfork Patch 869012 Noam Raphael
439
440- Keybindings with the Shift modifier now work correctly. So do bindings which
441 use the Space key. Limit unmodified user keybindings to the function keys.
442 Python Bug 775353, IDLEfork Bugs 755647, 761557
443
444- After an exception, run.py was not setting the exception vector. Noam
445 Raphael suggested correcting this so pdb's postmortem pm() would work.
446 IDLEfork Patch 844675
447
448- IDLE now does not fail to save the file anymore if the Tk buffer is not a
449 Unicode string, yet eol_convention is. Python Bugs 774680, 788378
450
451- IDLE didn't start correctly when Python was installed in "Program Files" on
452 W2K and XP. Python Bugs 780451, 784183
453
454- config-main.def documentation incorrectly referred to idle- instead of
455 config- filenames. SF 782759 Also added note about .idlerc location.
456
457
458What's New in IDLE 1.0?
459=======================
460
461*Release date: 29-Jul-2003*
462
463- Added a banner to the shell discussing warnings possibly raised by personal
464 firewall software. Added same comment to README.txt.
465
466
467What's New in IDLE 1.0 release candidate 2?
468===========================================
469
470*Release date: 24-Jul-2003*
471
472- Calltip error when docstring was None Python Bug 775541
473
474
475What's New in IDLE 1.0 release candidate 1?
476===========================================
477
478*Release date: 18-Jul-2003*
479
480- Updated extend.txt, help.txt, and config-extensions.def to correctly
481 reflect the current status of the configuration system. Python Bug 768469
482
483- Fixed: Call Tip Trimming May Loop Forever. Python Patch 769142 (Daniels)
484
485- Replaced apply(f, args, kwds) with f(*args, **kwargs) to improve performance
486 Python Patch 768187
487
488- Break or continue statements outside a loop were causing IDLE crash
489 Python Bug 767794
490
491- Convert Unicode strings from readline to IOBinding.encoding. Also set
492 sys.std{in|out|err}.encoding, for both the local and the subprocess case.
493 SF IDLEfork patch 682347.
494
495
496What's New in IDLE 1.0b2?
497=========================
498
499*Release date: 29-Jun-2003*
500
501- Extend AboutDialog.ViewFile() to support file encodings. Make the CREDITS
502 file Latin-1.
503
504- Updated the About dialog to reflect re-integration into Python. Provide
505 buttons to display Python's NEWS, License, and Credits, plus additional
506 buttons for IDLE's README and NEWS.
507
508- TextViewer() now has a third parameter which allows inserting text into the
509 viewer instead of reading from a file.
510
511- (Created the .../Lib/idlelib directory in the Python CVS, which is a clone of
512 IDLEfork modified to install in the Python environment. The code in the
513 interrupt module has been moved to thread.interrupt_main(). )
514
515- Printing the Shell window was failing if it was not saved first SF 748975
516
517- When using the Search in Files dialog, if the user had a selection
518 highlighted in his Editor window, insert it into the dialog search field.
519
520- The Python Shell entry was disappearing from the Windows menu.
521
522- Update the Windows file list when a file name change occurs
523
524- Change to File / Open Module: always pop up the dialog, using the current
525 selection as the default value. This is easier to use habitually.
526
527- Avoided a problem with starting the subprocess when 'localhost' doesn't
528 resolve to the user's loopback interface. SF 747772
529
530- Fixed an issue with highlighted errors never de-colorizing. SF 747677. Also
531 improved notification of Tabnanny Token Error.
532
533- File / New will by default save in the directory of the Edit window from
534 which it was initiated. SF 748973 Guido van Rossum patch.
535
536
537What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1?
538=============================
539
540*Release date: 02-Jun-2003*
541
542- The current working directory of the execution environment (and shell
543 following completion of execution) is now that of the module being run.
544
545- Added the delete-exitfunc option to config-main.def. (This option is not
546 included in the Options dialog.) Setting this to True (the default) will
547 cause IDLE to not run sys.exitfunc/atexit when the subprocess exits.
548
549- IDLE now preserves the line ending codes when editing a file produced on
550 a different platform. SF 661759, SF 538584
551
552- Reduced default editor font size to 10 point and increased window height
553 to provide a better initial impression on Windows.
554
555- Options / Fonts/Tabs / Set Base Editor Font: List box was not highlighting
556 the default font when first installed on Windows. SF 661676
557
558- Added Autosave feature: when user runs code from edit window, if the file
559 has been modified IDLE will silently save it if Autosave is enabled. The
560 option is set in the Options dialog, and the default is to prompt the
561 user to save the file. SF 661318 Bruce Sherwood patch.
562
563- Improved the RESTART annotation in the shell window when the user restarts
564 the shell while it is generating output. Also improved annotation when user
565 repeatedly hammers the Ctrl-F6 restart.
566
567- Allow IDLE to run when not installed and cwd is not the IDLE directory
568 SF Patch 686254 "Run IDLEfork from any directory without set-up" - Raphael
569
570- When a module is run from an EditorWindow: if its directory is not in
571 sys.path, prepend it. This allows the module to import other modules in
572 the same directory. Do the same for a script run from the command line.
573
574- Correctly restart the subprocess if it is running user code and the user
575 attempts to run some other module or restarts the shell. Do the same if
576 the link is broken and it is possible to restart the subprocess and re-
577 connect to the GUI. SF RFE 661321.
578
579- Improved exception reporting when running commands or scripts from the
580 command line.
581
582- Added a -n command line switch to start IDLE without the subprocess.
583 Removed the Shell menu when running in that mode. Updated help messages.
584
585- Added a comment to the shell startup header to indicate when IDLE is not
586 using the subprocess.
587
588- Restore the ability to run without the subprocess. This can be important for
589 some platforms or configurations. (Running without the subprocess allows the
590 debugger to trace through parts of IDLE itself, which may or may not be
591 desirable, depending on your point of view. In addition, the traditional
592 reload/import tricks must be use if user source code is changed.) This is
593 helpful for developing IDLE using IDLE, because one instance can be used to
594 edit the code and a separate instance run to test changes. (Multiple
595 concurrent IDLE instances with subprocesses is a future feature)
596
597- Improve the error message a user gets when saving a file with non-ASCII
598 characters and no source encoding is specified. Done by adding a dialog
599 'EncodingMessage', which contains the line to add in a fixed-font entry
600 widget, and which has a button to add that line to the file automatically.
601 Also, add a configuration option 'EditorWindow/encoding', which has three
602 possible values: none, utf-8, and locale. None is the default: IDLE will show
603 this dialog when non-ASCII characters are encountered. utf-8 means that files
604 with non-ASCII characters are saved as utf-8-with-bom. locale means that
605 files are saved in the locale's encoding; the dialog is only displayed if the
606 source contains characters outside the locale's charset. SF 710733 - Loewis
607
608- Improved I/O response by tweaking the wait parameter in various
609 calls to signal.signal().
610
611- Implemented a threaded subprocess which allows interrupting a pass
612 loop in user code using the 'interrupt' extension. User code runs
613 in MainThread, while the RPCServer is handled by SockThread. This is
614 necessary because Windows doesn't support signals.
615
616- Implemented the 'interrupt' extension module, which allows a subthread
617 to raise a KeyboardInterrupt in the main thread.
618
619- Attempting to save the shell raised an error related to saving
620 breakpoints, which are not implemented in the shell
621
622- Provide a correct message when 'exit' or 'quit' are entered at the
623 IDLE command prompt SF 695861
624
625- Eliminate extra blank line in shell output caused by not flushing
626 stdout when user code ends with an unterminated print. SF 695861
627
628- Moved responsibility for exception formatting (i.e. pruning IDLE internal
629 calls) out of rpc.py into the client and server.
630
631- Exit IDLE cleanly even when doing subprocess I/O
632
633- Handle subprocess interrupt with an RPC message.
634
635- Restart the subprocess if it terminates itself. (VPython programs do that)
636
637- Support subclassing of exceptions, including in the shell, by moving the
638 exception formatting to the subprocess.
639
640
641
642What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2?
643===================================
644
645*Release date: 27-Jan-2003*
646
647- Updated INSTALL.txt to claify use of the python2 rpm.
648
649- Improved formatting in IDLE Help.
650
651- Run menu: Replace "Run Script" with "Run Module".
652
653- Code encountering an unhandled exception under the debugger now shows
654 the correct traceback, with IDLE internal levels pruned out.
655
656- If an exception occurs entirely in IDLE, don't prune the IDLE internal
657 modules from the traceback displayed.
658
659- Class Browser and Path Browser now use Alt-Key-2 for vertical zoom.
660
661- IDLE icons will now install correctly even when setup.py is run from the
662 build directory
663
664- Class Browser now compatible with Python2.3 version of pyclbr.py
665
666- Left cursor move in presence of selected text now moves from left end
667 of the selection.
668
669- Add Meta keybindings to "IDLE Classic Windows" to handle reversed
670 Alt/Meta on some Linux distros.
671
672- Change default: IDLE now starts with Python Shell.
673
674- Removed the File Path from the Additional Help Sources scrolled list.
675
676- Add capability to access Additional Help Sources on the web if the
677 Help File Path begins with //http or www. (Otherwise local path is
678 validated, as before.)
679
680- Additional Help Sources were not being posted on the Help menu in the
681 order entered. Implement sorting the list by [HelpFiles] 'option'
682 number.
683
684- Add Browse button to New Help Source dialog. Arrange to start in
685 Python/Doc if platform is Windows, otherwise start in current directory.
686
687- Put the Additional Help Sources directly on the Help menu instead of in
688 an Extra Help cascade menu. Rearrange the Help menu so the Additional
689 Help Sources come last. Update help.txt appropriately.
690
691- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configSectionNameDialog.py and configDialog.py
692
693- Uniform capitalization in General tab of ConfigDialog, update the doc string.
694
695- Fix bug in ConfigDialog where SaveAllChangedConfig() was unexpectedly
696 deleting Additional Help Sources from the user's config file.
697
698- Make configHelpSourceEdit OK button the default and bind <Return>
699
700- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configHelpSourceEdit: error dialogs not attached
701 to parents.
702
703- Use os.startfile() to open both Additional Help and Python Help on the
704 Windows platform. The application associated with the file type will act as
705 the viewer. Windows help files (.chm) are now supported via the
706 Settings/General/Additional Help facility.
707
708- If Python Help files are installed locally on Linux, use them instead of
709 accessing python.org.
710
711- Make the methods for finding the Python help docs more robust, and make
712 them work in the installed configuration, also.
713
714- On the Save Before Run dialog, make the OK button the default. One
715 less mouse action!
716
717- Add a method: EditorWindow.get_geometry() for future use in implementing
718 window location persistence.
719
720- Removed the "Help/Advice" menu entry. Thanks, David! We'll remember!
721
722- Change the "Classic Windows" theme's paste key to be <ctrl-v>.
723
724- Rearrange the Shell menu to put Stack Viewer entries adjacent.
725
726- Add the ability to restart the subprocess interpreter from the shell window;
727 add an associated menu entry "Shell/Restart" with binding Control-F6. Update
728 IDLE help.
729
730- Upon a restart, annotate the shell window with a "restart boundary". Add a
731 shell window menu "Shell/View Restart" with binding F6 to jump to the most
732 recent restart boundary.
733
734- Add Shell menu to Python Shell; change "Settings" to "Options".
735
736- Remove incorrect comment in setup.py: IDLEfork is now installed as a package.
737
738- Add INSTALL.txt, HISTORY.txt, NEWS.txt to installed configuration.
739
740- In installer text, fix reference to Visual Python, should be VPython.
741 Properly credit David Scherer.
742
743- Modified idle, idle.py, idle.pyw to improve exception handling.
744
745
746What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 1?
747===================================
748
749*Release date: 31-Dec-2002*
750
751- First release of major new functionality. For further details refer to
752 Idle-dev and/or the Sourceforge CVS.
753
754- Adapted to the Mac platform.
755
756- Overhauled the IDLE startup options and revised the idle -h help message,
757 which provides details of command line usage.
758
759- Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements.
760
761- Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The output
762 of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to inspect the
763 environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1 the shell
764 environment was separate from the environment of the user code.)
765
766- Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog.
767
768- Removed David Scherer's Remote Procedure Call code and replaced with Guido
769 van Rossum's. GvR code has support for the IDLE debugger and uses the shell
770 to inspect the environment of code Run from an Edit window. Files removed:
771 ExecBinding.py, loader.py, protocol.py, Remote.py, spawn.py
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774Refer to HISTORY.txt for additional information on earlier releases.
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