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133 lines
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TO DO:
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- "GO" command
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- "Modularize" command
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- command expansion from keywords, module contents, other buffers, etc.
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- "Recent documents" menu item
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- more emacsisms:
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- parentheses matching
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- reindent, reformat text etc.
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- M-[, M-] to move by paragraphs
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- smart stuff with whitespace around Return
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- filter region?
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- incremental search?
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- ^K should cut to buffer
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- command to fill text paragraphs
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- restructure state sensitive code to avoid testing flags all the time
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- finish debugger
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- object browser instead of current stack viewer
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- persistent user state (e.g. window and cursor positions, bindings)
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- make backups when saving
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- check file mtimes at various points
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- interface with RCS/CVS/Perforce ???
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- status bar?
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- better help?
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- don't open second class browser on same module
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Details:
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- when there's a selection, left/right arrow should go to either
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end of the selection
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- ^O (on Unix -- open-line) should honor autoindent
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- after paste, show end of pasted text
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- on Windows, should turn short filename to long filename (not only in argv!)
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(shouldn't this be done -- or undone -- by ntpath.normpath?)
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Structural problems:
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- too much knowledge in FileList about EditorWindow (for example)
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- Several occurrences of scrollable listbox with title and certain
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behavior; should create base class to generalize this
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Jeff Bauer suggests:
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- The editor should show the current line number.
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- Open Module doesn't appear to handle hierarchical packages.
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- Class browser should also allow hierarchical packages.
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- Open and Open Module could benefit from a history,
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either command line style, or Microsoft recent-file
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style.
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- Add a Smalltalk-style inspector (i.e. Tkinspect)
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The last suggestion is already a reality, but not yet
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integrated into IDLE. I use a module called inspector.py,
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that used to be available from python.org(?) It no longer
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appears to be in the contributed section, and the source
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has no author attribution.
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In any case, the code is useful for visually navigating
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an object's attributes, including its container hierarchy.
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>>> from inspector import Tkinspect
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>>> Tkinspect(None, myObject)
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Tkinspect could probably be extended and refined to
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integrate better into IDLE.
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Comparison to PTUI
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------------------
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+ PTUI has a status line
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+ PTUI's help is better (HTML!)
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+ PTUI can attach a shell to any module
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+ PTUI's auto indent is better
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(understands that "if a: # blah, blah" opens a block)
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+ IDLE requires 4x backspace to dedent a line
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+ PTUI has more bells and whistles:
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open multiple
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append
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modularize
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examine
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go
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? PTUI's fontify is faster but synchronous (and still too slow);
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does a lousy job if editing affects lines below
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- PTUI's shell is worse:
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no coloring;
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no editing of multi-line commands;
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^P seems to permanently remove some text from the buffer
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- PTUI's undo is worse:
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no redo;
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one char at a time
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- PTUI's GUI is a tad ugly:
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I don't like the multiple buffers in one window model;
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I don't like the big buttons at the top of the widow
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- PTUI lacks an integrated debugger
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- PTUI lacks a class browser
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- PTUI lacks many of IDLE's features:
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- expand word
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- regular expression search
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- search files (grep)
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Notes after trying to run Grail
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-------------------------------
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- Grail does stuff to sys.path based on sys.argv[0]; you must set
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sys.argv[0] to something decent first (it is normally set to the path of
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the idle script).
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- Grail must be exec'ed in __main__ because that's imported by some
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other parts of Grail.
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- Grail uses a module called History and so does idle :-(
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