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Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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IDLE 0.2 - 01/01/99
Added intro for 0.1 release and append Grail notes.
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This is a *very* early preliminary release of IDLE, my own attempt at
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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a Tkinter-based IDE for Python. It has the following features:
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- multi-window text editor with multiple undo and Python colorizing
- Python shell (a.k.a. interactive interpreter) window subclass
- debugger
Clarify portability and main program.
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- 100% pure Python
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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- works on Windows and Unix (probably works on Mac too)
Added intro for 0.1 release and append Grail notes.
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Formatted some paragraphs
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The main program is in the file "idle"; on Windows you can use idle.pyw
to avoid popping up a DOS console. Any arguments passed are interpreted
as files that will be opened for editing.
Clarify portability and main program.
1998-11-16 14:37:42 -04:00
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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IDLE requires Python 1.5.2, so it is currently only usable with the
Python 1.5.2 beta distribution (luckily, IDLE is bundled with Python
1.5.2).
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Please send feedback to the Python newsgroup, comp.lang.python.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
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TO DO:
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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- "GO" command
- "Modularize" command
- command expansion from keywords, module contents, other buffers, etc.
Get rid of conflicting ^X binding. Use ^W.
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- "Recent documents" menu item
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
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- more emacsisms:
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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- parentheses matching
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
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- reindent, reformat text etc.
- M-[, M-] to move by paragraphs
- smart stuff with whitespace around Return
Misc
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- filter region?
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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- incremental search?
- ^K should cut to buffer
- command to fill text paragraphs
- restructure state sensitive code to avoid testing flags all the time
- finish debugger
- object browser instead of current stack viewer
- persistent user state (e.g. window and cursor positions, bindings)
- make backups when saving
- check file mtimes at various points
- interface with RCS/CVS/Perforce ???
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
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- status bar?
- better help?
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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- don't open second class browser on same module
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
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Details:
Clarify portability and main program.
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Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
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- when there's a selection, left/right arrow should go to either
end of the selection
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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- ^O (on Unix -- open-line) should honor autoindent
- after paste, show end of pasted text
- on Windows, should turn short filename to long filename (not only in argv!)
(shouldn't this be done -- or undone -- by ntpath.normpath?)
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
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Structural problems:
- too much knowledge in FileList about EditorWindow (for example)
Misc
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- Several occurrences of scrollable listbox with title and certain
behavior; should create base class to generalize this
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
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======================================================================
Comparison to PTUI
------------------
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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+ PTUI has a status line
+ PTUI's help is better (HTML!)
+ PTUI can attach a shell to any module
+ PTUI's auto indent is better
(understands that "if a: # blah, blah" opens a block)
+ IDLE requires 4x backspace to dedent a line
+ PTUI has more bells and whistles:
open multiple
append
modularize
examine
go
? PTUI's fontify is faster but synchronous (and still too slow);
does a lousy job if editing affects lines below
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
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- PTUI's shell is worse:
no coloring;
no editing of multi-line commands;
^P seems to permanently remove some text from the buffer
- PTUI's undo is worse:
no redo;
one char at a time
- PTUI's GUI is a tad ugly:
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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I don't like the multiple buffers in one window model;
I don't like the big buttons at the top of the widow
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
1998-10-10 15:48:31 -03:00
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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- PTUI lacks an integrated debugger
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
1998-10-10 15:48:31 -03:00
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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- PTUI lacks a class browser
Initial checking of Tk-based Python IDE. Features: text editor with syntax coloring and undo; subclassed into interactive Python shell which adds history.
1998-10-10 15:48:31 -03:00
Checking in IDLE 0.2. Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down. The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions; see extend.txt. Some sample extensions have been provided, and some existing code has been converted to extensions. Probably the biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options, search and replace, and even search in files (grep). This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.
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- PTUI lacks many of IDLE's features:
- expand word
- regular expression search
- search files (grep)
Added intro for 0.1 release and append Grail notes.
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======================================================================
Notes after trying to run Grail
-------------------------------
- Grail does stuff to sys.path based on sys.argv[0]; you must set
Formatted some paragraphs
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sys.argv[0] to something decent first (it is normally set to the path of
the idle script).
Added intro for 0.1 release and append Grail notes.
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- Grail must be exec'ed in __main__ because that's imported by some
other parts of Grail.
- Grail uses a module called History and so does idle :-(
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