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1 What's New in IDLE 2.7? (Merged into 3.1 before 2.7 release.)
2 =======================
3 *Release date: XX-XXX-2010*
4
5 - idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental
6 versions of IDLE which are not installed in the standard location.
7
8 - OutputWindow/PyShell right click menu "Go to file/line" wasn't working with
9 file paths containing spaces. Bug 5559.
10
11 - Windows: Version string for the .chm help file changed, file not being
12 accessed Patch 5783 Guilherme Polo
13
14 - Allow multiple IDLE GUI/subprocess pairs to exist simultaneously. Thanks to
15 David Scherer for suggesting the use of an ephemeral port for the GUI.
16 Patch 1529142 Weeble.
17
18 - Remove port spec from run.py and fix bug where subprocess fails to
19 extract port from command line when warnings are present.
20
21 - Tk 8.5 Text widget requires 'wordprocessor' tabstyle attr to handle
22 mixed space/tab properly. Issue 5129, patch by Guilherme Polo.
23
24 - Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present
25
26 - IDLE would print a "Unhandled server exception!" message when internal
27 debugging is enabled.
28
29 - Issue #4455: IDLE failed to display the windows list when two windows have
30 the same title.
31
32 - Issue #4383: When IDLE cannot make the connection to its subprocess, it would
33 fail to properly display the error message.
34
35 - help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650.
36
37 - CodeContext was not importing.
38
39 - Corrected two 3.0 compatibility errors reported by Mark Summerfield:
40 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-December/011491.html
41
42 - Shell was not colorizing due to bug introduced at r57998, Bug 1586.
43
44 - Issue #1585: IDLE uses non-existent xrange() function.
45
46 - Windows EOL sequence not converted correctly, encoding error.
47 Caused file save to fail. Bug 1130.
48
49 - IDLE converted to Python 3000 syntax.
50
51 - Strings became Unicode.
52
53 - CallTips module now uses the inspect module to produce the argspec.
54
55 - IDLE modules now use absolute import instead of implied relative import.
56
57 - atexit call replaces sys.exitfunc. The functionality of delete-exitfunc flag
58 in config-main.cfg remains unchanged: if set, registered exit functions will
59 be cleared before IDLE exits.
60
61
62 What's New in IDLE 2.6
63 ======================
64 *Release date: 01-Oct-2008*, merged into 3.0 releases detailed above (3.0rc2)
65
66 - Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version
67 would not start if a custom theme was defined.
68
69 - Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white
70 space. issue1196903, patch by Jeff Shute.
71
72 - Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic. issue2062, patch by Tal Einat.
73
74 - Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the
75 '/' char on Windows. issue2061 Patch by Tal Einat.
76
77 - Configured selection highlighting colors were ignored; updating highlighting
78 in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they
79 were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator. Patch 1334. Tal Einat.
80
81 - ScriptBinding event handlers weren't returning 'break'. Patch 2050, Tal Einat
82
83 - There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647.
84
85 - Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows.
86 Issue 1743, Issue 1862.
87
88 - Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding. Patch 1457 Tal Einat.
89
90 - tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows
91 of tabs. Patch 1612746 Tal Einat.
92
93 - Add confirmation dialog before printing. Patch 1717170 Tal Einat.
94
95 - Show paste position if > 80 col. Patch 1659326 Tal Einat.
96
97 - Update cursor color without restarting. Patch 1725576 Tal Einat.
98
99 - Allow keyboard interrupt only when user code is executing in subprocess.
100 Patch 1225 Tal Einat (reworked from IDLE-Spoon).
101
102 - configDialog cleanup. Patch 1730217 Tal Einat.
103
104 - textView cleanup. Patch 1718043 Tal Einat.
105
106 - Clean up EditorWindow close.
107
108 - Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X. Backport of r56204.
109
110 - OSX: Avoid crash for those versions of Tcl/Tk which don't have a console
111
112 - Bug in idlelib.MultiCall: Options dialog was crashing IDLE if there was an
113 option in config-extensions w/o a value. Patch #1672481, Tal Einat
114
115 - Corrected some bugs in AutoComplete. Also, Page Up/Down in ACW implemented;
116 mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts
117 current selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll
118 wheel now works in ACW. Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help.
119
120 - AutoCompleteWindow moved below input line, will move above if there
121 isn't enough space. Patch 1621265 Tal Einat
122
123 - Calltips now 'handle' tuples in the argument list (display '<tuple>' :)
124 Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968.
125
126 - Add 'raw' support to configHandler. Patch 1650174 Tal Einat.
127
128 - Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112.
129
130 - Patch #1362975: Rework CodeContext indentation algorithm to
131 avoid hard-coding pixel widths.
132
133 - Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
134 is started with that option.
135
136 - Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092)
137
138 - Some syntax errors were being caught by tokenize during the tabnanny
139 check, resulting in obscure error messages. Do the syntax check
140 first. Bug 1562716, 1562719
141
142 - IDLE's version number takes a big jump to match the version number of
143 the Python release of which it's a part.
144
145
146 What's New in IDLE 1.2?
147 =======================
148 *Release date: 19-SEP-2006*
149
150 - File menu hotkeys: there were three 'p' assignments. Reassign the
151 'Save Copy As' and 'Print' hotkeys to 'y' and 't'. Change the
152 Shell hotkey from 's' to 'l'.
153
154 - IDLE honors new quit() and exit() commands from site.py Quitter() object.
155 Patch 1540892, Jim Jewett
156
157 - The 'with' statement is now a Code Context block opener.
158 Patch 1540851, Jim Jewett
159
160 - Retrieval of previous shell command was not always preserving indentation
161 (since 1.2a1) Patch 1528468 Tal Einat.
162
163 - Changing tokenize (39046) to detect dedent broke tabnanny check (since 1.2a1)
164
165 - ToggleTab dialog was setting indent to 8 even if cancelled (since 1.2a1).
166
167 - When used w/o subprocess, all exceptions were preceded by an error
168 message claiming they were IDLE internal errors (since 1.2a1).
169
170 - Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips.
171
172 - Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly
173
174 - Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a
175 path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X
176
177 - EditorWindow.test() was failing. Bug 1417598
178
179 - EditorWindow failed when used stand-alone if sys.ps1 not set.
180 Bug 1010370 Dave Florek
181
182 - Tooltips failed on new-syle class __init__ args. Bug 1027566 Loren Guthrie
183
184 - Avoid occasional failure to detect closing paren properly.
185 Patch 1407280 Tal Einat
186
187 - Rebinding Tab key was inserting 'tab' instead of 'Tab'. Bug 1179168.
188
189 - Colorizer now handles #<builtin> correctly, also unicode strings and
190 'as' keyword in comment directly following import command. Closes 1325071.
191 Patch 1479219 Tal Einat
192
193 - Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
194
195 - Source file f.flush() after writing; trying to avoid lossage if user
196 kills GUI.
197
198 - Options / Keys / Advanced dialog made functional. Also, allow binding
199 of 'movement' keys.
200
201 - 'syntax' patch adds improved calltips and a new class attribute listbox.
202 MultiCall module allows binding multiple actions to an event.
203 Patch 906702 Noam Raphael
204
205 - Better indentation after first line of string continuation.
206 IDLEfork Patch 681992, Noam Raphael
207
208 - Fixed CodeContext alignment problem, following suggestion from Tal Einat.
209
210 - Increased performance in CodeContext extension Patch 936169 Noam Raphael
211
212 - Mac line endings were incorrect when pasting code from some browsers
213 when using X11 and the Fink distribution. Python Bug 1263656.
214
215 - <Enter> when cursor is on a previous command retrieves that command. Instead
216 of replacing the input line, the previous command is now appended to the
217 input line. Indentation is preserved, and undo is enabled.
218 Patch 1196917 Jeff Shute
219
220 - Clarify "tab/space" Error Dialog and "Tab Width" Dialog associated with
221 the Untabify command.
222
223 - Corrected "tab/space" Error Dialog to show correct menu for Untabify.
224 Patch 1196980 Jeff Shute
225
226 - New files are colorized by default, and colorizing is removed when
227 saving as non-Python files. Patch 1196895 Jeff Shute
228 Closes Python Bugs 775012 and 800432, partial fix IDLEfork 763524
229
230 - Improve subprocess link error notification.
231
232 - run.py: use Queue's blocking feature instead of sleeping in the main
233 loop. Patch # 1190163 Michiel de Hoon
234
235 - Add config-main option to make the 'history' feature non-cyclic.
236 Default remains cyclic. Python Patch 914546 Noam Raphael.
237
238 - Removed ability to configure tabs indent from Options dialog. This 'feature'
239 has never worked and no one has complained. It is still possible to set a
240 default tabs (v. spaces) indent 'manually' via config-main.def (or to turn on
241 tabs for the current EditorWindow via the Format menu) but IDLE will
242 encourage indentation via spaces.
243
244 - Enable setting the indentation width using the Options dialog.
245 Bug # 783877
246
247 - Add keybindings for del-word-left and del-word-right.
248
249 - Discourage using an indent width other than 8 when using tabs to indent
250 Python code.
251
252 - Restore use of EditorWindow.set_indentation_params(), was dead code since
253 Autoindent was merged into EditorWindow. This allows IDLE to conform to the
254 indentation width of a loaded file. (But it still will not switch to tabs
255 even if the file uses tabs.) Any change in indent width is local to that
256 window.
257
258 - Add Tabnanny check before Run/F5, not just when Checking module.
259
260 - If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of
261 erroring out.
262
263 - Improve error handling when .idlerc can't be created (warn and exit).
264
265 - The GUI was hanging if the shell window was closed while a raw_input()
266 was pending. Restored the quit() of the readline() mainloop().
267 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2004-December/002307.html
268
269 - The remote procedure call module rpc.py can now access data attributes of
270 remote registered objects. Changes to these attributes are local, however.
271
272
273 What's New in IDLE 1.1?
274 =======================
275 *Release date: 30-NOV-2004*
276
277 - On OpenBSD, terminating IDLE with ctrl-c from the command line caused a
278 stuck subprocess MainThread because only the SocketThread was exiting.
279
280 - Saving a Keyset w/o making changes (by using the "Save as New Custom Key Set"
281 button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in
282 config-keys.cfg). Also true for Theme/highlights. Python Bug 1064535.
283
284 - A change to the linecache.py API caused IDLE to exit when an exception was
285 raised while running without the subprocess (-n switch). Python Bug 1063840.
286
287 - When paragraph reformat width was made configurable, a bug was
288 introduced that caused reformatting of comment blocks to ignore how
289 far the block was indented, effectively adding the indentation width
290 to the reformat width. This has been repaired, and the reformat
291 width is again a bound on the total width of reformatted lines.
292
293 - Improve keyboard focus binding, especially in Windows menu. Improve
294 window raising, especially in the Windows menu and in the debugger.
295 IDLEfork 763524.
296
297 - If user passes a non-existent filename on the commandline, just
298 open a new file, don't raise a dialog. IDLEfork 854928.
299
300 - EditorWindow.py was not finding the .chm help file on Windows. Typo
301 at Rev 1.54. Python Bug 990954
302
303 - checking sys.platform for substring 'win' was breaking IDLE docs on Mac
304 (darwin). Also, Mac Safari browser requires full file:// URIs. SF 900580.
305
306 - Redirect the warning stream to the shell during the ScriptBinding check of
307 user code and format the warning similarly to an exception for both that
308 check and for runtime warnings raised in the subprocess.
309
310 - CodeContext hint pane visibility state is now persistent across sessions.
311 The pane no longer appears in the shell window. Added capability to limit
312 extensions to shell window or editor windows. Noam Raphael addition
313 to Patch 936169.
314
315 - Paragraph reformat width is now a configurable parameter in the
316 Options GUI.
317
318 - New Extension: CodeContext. Provides block structuring hints for code
319 which has scrolled above an edit window. Patch 936169 Noam Raphael.
320
321 - If nulls somehow got into the strings in recent-files.lst
322 EditorWindow.update_recent_files_list() was failing. Python Bug 931336.
323
324 - If the normal background is changed via Configure/Highlighting, it will
325 update immediately, thanks to the previously mentioned patch by Nigel Rowe.
326
327 - Add a highlight theme for builtin keywords. Python Patch 805830 Nigel Rowe
328 This also fixed IDLEfork bug [ 693418 ] Normal text background color not
329 refreshed and Python bug [897872 ] Unknown color name on HP-UX
330
331 - rpc.py:SocketIO - Large modules were generating large pickles when downloaded
332 to the execution server. The return of the OK response from the subprocess
333 initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not
334 ready. Add an IO ready test to fix this. Moved the polling IO ready test
335 into pollpacket().
336
337 - Fix typo in rpc.py, s/b "pickle.PicklingError" not "pickle.UnpicklingError".
338
339 - Added a Tk error dialog to run.py inform the user if the subprocess can't
340 connect to the user GUI process. Added a timeout to the GUI's listening
341 socket. Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind
342 the port or connect to the subprocess. Clean up error handling during
343 connection initiation phase. This is an update of Python Patch 778323.
344
345 - Print correct exception even if source file changed since shell was
346 restarted. IDLEfork Patch 869012 Noam Raphael
347
348 - Keybindings with the Shift modifier now work correctly. So do bindings which
349 use the Space key. Limit unmodified user keybindings to the function keys.
350 Python Bug 775353, IDLEfork Bugs 755647, 761557
351
352 - After an exception, run.py was not setting the exception vector. Noam
353 Raphael suggested correcting this so pdb's postmortem pm() would work.
354 IDLEfork Patch 844675
355
356 - IDLE now does not fail to save the file anymore if the Tk buffer is not a
357 Unicode string, yet eol_convention is. Python Bugs 774680, 788378
358
359 - IDLE didn't start correctly when Python was installed in "Program Files" on
360 W2K and XP. Python Bugs 780451, 784183
361
362 - config-main.def documentation incorrectly referred to idle- instead of
363 config- filenames. SF 782759 Also added note about .idlerc location.
364
365
366 What's New in IDLE 1.0?
367 =======================
368 *Release date: 29-Jul-2003*
369
370 - Added a banner to the shell discussing warnings possibly raised by personal
371 firewall software. Added same comment to README.txt.
372
373 - Calltip error when docstring was None Python Bug 775541
374
375 - Updated extend.txt, help.txt, and config-extensions.def to correctly
376 reflect the current status of the configuration system. Python Bug 768469
377
378 - Fixed: Call Tip Trimming May Loop Forever. Python Patch 769142 (Daniels)
379
380 - Replaced apply(f, args, kwds) with f(*args, **kwargs) to improve performance
381 Python Patch 768187
382
383 - Break or continue statements outside a loop were causing IDLE crash
384 Python Bug 767794
385
386 - Convert Unicode strings from readline to IOBinding.encoding. Also set
387 sys.std{in|out|err}.encoding, for both the local and the subprocess case.
388 SF IDLEfork patch 682347.
389
390 - Extend AboutDialog.ViewFile() to support file encodings. Make the CREDITS
391 file Latin-1.
392
393 - Updated the About dialog to reflect re-integration into Python. Provide
394 buttons to display Python's NEWS, License, and Credits, plus additional
395 buttons for IDLE's README and NEWS.
396
397 - TextViewer() now has a third parameter which allows inserting text into the
398 viewer instead of reading from a file.
399
400 - (Created the .../Lib/idlelib directory in the Python CVS, which is a clone of
401 IDLEfork modified to install in the Python environment. The code in the
402 interrupt module has been moved to thread.interrupt_main(). )
403
404 - Printing the Shell window was failing if it was not saved first SF 748975
405
406 - When using the Search in Files dialog, if the user had a selection
407 highlighted in his Editor window, insert it into the dialog search field.
408
409 - The Python Shell entry was disappearing from the Windows menu.
410
411 - Update the Windows file list when a file name change occurs
412
413 - Change to File / Open Module: always pop up the dialog, using the current
414 selection as the default value. This is easier to use habitually.
415
416 - Avoided a problem with starting the subprocess when 'localhost' doesn't
417 resolve to the user's loopback interface. SF 747772
418
419 - Fixed an issue with highlighted errors never de-colorizing. SF 747677. Also
420 improved notification of Tabnanny Token Error.
421
422 - File / New will by default save in the directory of the Edit window from
423 which it was initiated. SF 748973 Guido van Rossum patch.
424
425
426 What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1?
427 =============================
428 *Release date: 02-Jun-2003*
429
430 - The current working directory of the execution environment (and shell
431 following completion of execution) is now that of the module being run.
432
433 - Added the delete-exitfunc option to config-main.def. (This option is not
434 included in the Options dialog.) Setting this to True (the default) will
435 cause IDLE to not run sys.exitfunc/atexit when the subprocess exits.
436
437 - IDLE now preserves the line ending codes when editing a file produced on
438 a different platform. SF 661759, SF 538584
439
440 - Reduced default editor font size to 10 point and increased window height
441 to provide a better initial impression on Windows.
442
443 - Options / Fonts/Tabs / Set Base Editor Font: List box was not highlighting
444 the default font when first installed on Windows. SF 661676
445
446 - Added Autosave feature: when user runs code from edit window, if the file
447 has been modified IDLE will silently save it if Autosave is enabled. The
448 option is set in the Options dialog, and the default is to prompt the
449 user to save the file. SF 661318 Bruce Sherwood patch.
450
451 - Improved the RESTART annotation in the shell window when the user restarts
452 the shell while it is generating output. Also improved annotation when user
453 repeatedly hammers the Ctrl-F6 restart.
454
455 - Allow IDLE to run when not installed and cwd is not the IDLE directory
456 SF Patch 686254 "Run IDLEfork from any directory without set-up" - Raphael
457
458 - When a module is run from an EditorWindow: if its directory is not in
459 sys.path, prepend it. This allows the module to import other modules in
460 the same directory. Do the same for a script run from the command line.
461
462 - Correctly restart the subprocess if it is running user code and the user
463 attempts to run some other module or restarts the shell. Do the same if
464 the link is broken and it is possible to restart the subprocess and re-
465 connect to the GUI. SF RFE 661321.
466
467 - Improved exception reporting when running commands or scripts from the
468 command line.
469
470 - Added a -n command line switch to start IDLE without the subprocess.
471 Removed the Shell menu when running in that mode. Updated help messages.
472
473 - Added a comment to the shell startup header to indicate when IDLE is not
474 using the subprocess.
475
476 - Restore the ability to run without the subprocess. This can be important for
477 some platforms or configurations. (Running without the subprocess allows the
478 debugger to trace through parts of IDLE itself, which may or may not be
479 desirable, depending on your point of view. In addition, the traditional
480 reload/import tricks must be use if user source code is changed.) This is
481 helpful for developing IDLE using IDLE, because one instance can be used to
482 edit the code and a separate instance run to test changes. (Multiple
483 concurrent IDLE instances with subprocesses is a future feature)
484
485 - Improve the error message a user gets when saving a file with non-ASCII
486 characters and no source encoding is specified. Done by adding a dialog
487 'EncodingMessage', which contains the line to add in a fixed-font entry
488 widget, and which has a button to add that line to the file automatically.
489 Also, add a configuration option 'EditorWindow/encoding', which has three
490 possible values: none, utf-8, and locale. None is the default: IDLE will show
491 this dialog when non-ASCII characters are encountered. utf-8 means that files
492 with non-ASCII characters are saved as utf-8-with-bom. locale means that
493 files are saved in the locale's encoding; the dialog is only displayed if the
494 source contains characters outside the locale's charset. SF 710733 - Loewis
495
496 - Improved I/O response by tweaking the wait parameter in various
497 calls to signal.signal().
498
499 - Implemented a threaded subprocess which allows interrupting a pass
500 loop in user code using the 'interrupt' extension. User code runs
501 in MainThread, while the RPCServer is handled by SockThread. This is
502 necessary because Windows doesn't support signals.
503
504 - Implemented the 'interrupt' extension module, which allows a subthread
505 to raise a KeyboardInterrupt in the main thread.
506
507 - Attempting to save the shell raised an error related to saving
508 breakpoints, which are not implemented in the shell
509
510 - Provide a correct message when 'exit' or 'quit' are entered at the
511 IDLE command prompt SF 695861
512
513 - Eliminate extra blank line in shell output caused by not flushing
514 stdout when user code ends with an unterminated print. SF 695861
515
516 - Moved responsibility for exception formatting (i.e. pruning IDLE internal
517 calls) out of rpc.py into the client and server.
518
519 - Exit IDLE cleanly even when doing subprocess I/O
520
521 - Handle subprocess interrupt with an RPC message.
522
523 - Restart the subprocess if it terminates itself. (VPython programs do that)
524
525 - Support subclassing of exceptions, including in the shell, by moving the
526 exception formatting to the subprocess.
527
528
529 What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2?
530 ===================================
531 *Release date: 27-Jan-2003*
532
533 - Updated INSTALL.txt to claify use of the python2 rpm.
534
535 - Improved formatting in IDLE Help.
536
537 - Run menu: Replace "Run Script" with "Run Module".
538
539 - Code encountering an unhandled exception under the debugger now shows
540 the correct traceback, with IDLE internal levels pruned out.
541
542 - If an exception occurs entirely in IDLE, don't prune the IDLE internal
543 modules from the traceback displayed.
544
545 - Class Browser and Path Browser now use Alt-Key-2 for vertical zoom.
546
547 - IDLE icons will now install correctly even when setup.py is run from the
548 build directory
549
550 - Class Browser now compatible with Python2.3 version of pyclbr.py
551
552 - Left cursor move in presence of selected text now moves from left end
553 of the selection.
554
555 - Add Meta keybindings to "IDLE Classic Windows" to handle reversed
556 Alt/Meta on some Linux distros.
557
558 - Change default: IDLE now starts with Python Shell.
559
560 - Removed the File Path from the Additional Help Sources scrolled list.
561
562 - Add capability to access Additional Help Sources on the web if the
563 Help File Path begins with //http or www. (Otherwise local path is
564 validated, as before.)
565
566 - Additional Help Sources were not being posted on the Help menu in the
567 order entered. Implement sorting the list by [HelpFiles] 'option'
568 number.
569
570 - Add Browse button to New Help Source dialog. Arrange to start in
571 Python/Doc if platform is Windows, otherwise start in current directory.
572
573 - Put the Additional Help Sources directly on the Help menu instead of in
574 an Extra Help cascade menu. Rearrange the Help menu so the Additional
575 Help Sources come last. Update help.txt appropriately.
576
577 - Fix Tk root pop-ups in configSectionNameDialog.py and configDialog.py
578
579 - Uniform capitalization in General tab of ConfigDialog, update the doc string.
580
581 - Fix bug in ConfigDialog where SaveAllChangedConfig() was unexpectedly
582 deleting Additional Help Sources from the user's config file.
583
584 - Make configHelpSourceEdit OK button the default and bind <Return>
585
586 - Fix Tk root pop-ups in configHelpSourceEdit: error dialogs not attached
587 to parents.
588
589 - Use os.startfile() to open both Additional Help and Python Help on the
590 Windows platform. The application associated with the file type will act as
591 the viewer. Windows help files (.chm) are now supported via the
592 Settings/General/Additional Help facility.
593
594 - If Python Help files are installed locally on Linux, use them instead of
595 accessing python.org.
596
597 - Make the methods for finding the Python help docs more robust, and make
598 them work in the installed configuration, also.
599
600 - On the Save Before Run dialog, make the OK button the default. One
601 less mouse action!
602
603 - Add a method: EditorWindow.get_geometry() for future use in implementing
604 window location persistence.
605
606 - Removed the "Help/Advice" menu entry. Thanks, David! We'll remember!
607
608 - Change the "Classic Windows" theme's paste key to be <ctrl-v>.
609
610 - Rearrange the Shell menu to put Stack Viewer entries adjacent.
611
612 - Add the ability to restart the subprocess interpreter from the shell window;
613 add an associated menu entry "Shell/Restart" with binding Control-F6. Update
614 IDLE help.
615
616 - Upon a restart, annotate the shell window with a "restart boundary". Add a
617 shell window menu "Shell/View Restart" with binding F6 to jump to the most
618 recent restart boundary.
619
620 - Add Shell menu to Python Shell; change "Settings" to "Options".
621
622 - Remove incorrect comment in setup.py: IDLEfork is now installed as a package.
623
624 - Add INSTALL.txt, HISTORY.txt, NEWS.txt to installed configuration.
625
626 - In installer text, fix reference to Visual Python, should be VPython.
627 Properly credit David Scherer.
628
629 - Modified idle, idle.py, idle.pyw to improve exception handling.
630
631
632 What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 1?
633 ===================================
634 *Release date: 31-Dec-2002*
635
636 - First release of major new functionality. For further details refer to
637 Idle-dev and/or the Sourceforge CVS.
638
639 - Adapted to the Mac platform.
640
641 - Overhauled the IDLE startup options and revised the idle -h help message,
642 which provides details of command line usage.
643
644 - Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements.
645
646 - Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The output
647 of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to inspect the
648 environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1 the shell
649 environment was separate from the environment of the user code.)
650
651 - Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog.
652
653 - Removed David Scherer's Remote Procedure Call code and replaced with Guido
654 van Rossum's. GvR code has support for the IDLE debugger and uses the shell
655 to inspect the environment of code Run from an Edit window. Files removed:
656 ExecBinding.py, loader.py, protocol.py, Remote.py, spawn.py
657
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659 Refer to HISTORY.txt for additional information on earlier releases.
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