Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.

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Terry Jan Reedy 2015-09-24 23:13:49 -04:00
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* :kbd:`Return` while on any previous command retrieves that command * :kbd:`Return` while on any previous command retrieves that command
Syntax colors Text colors
------------- ^^^^^^^^^^^
The coloring is applied in a background "thread," so you may occasionally see Idle defaults to black on white text, but colors text with special meanings.
uncolorized text. To change the color scheme, edit the ``[Colors]`` section in For the shell, these are shell output, shell error, user output, and
:file:`config.txt`. user error. For Python code, at the shell prompt or in an editor, these are
keywords, builtin class and function names, names following ``class`` and
``def``, strings, and comments. For any text window, these are the cursor (when
present), found text (when possible), and selected text.
Python syntax colors: Text coloring is done in the background, so uncolorized text is occasionally
Keywords visible. To change the color scheme, use the Configure IDLE dialog
orange Highlighting tab. The marking of debugger breakpoint lines in the editor and
text in popups and dialogs is not user-configurable.
Strings
green
Comments
red
Definitions
blue
Shell colors:
Console output
brown
stdout
blue
stderr
dark green
stdin
black
Startup and code execution Startup and code execution