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1 Original IDLE todo, much of it now outdated:
2 ============================================
3 TO DO:
4
5 - improve debugger:
6 - manage breakpoints globally, allow bp deletion, tbreak, cbreak etc.
7 - real object browser
8 - help on how to use it (a simple help button will do wonders)
9 - performance? (updates of large sets of locals are slow)
10 - better integration of "debug module"
11 - debugger should be global resource (attached to flist, not to shell)
12 - fix the stupid bug where you need to step twice
13 - display class name in stack viewer entries for methods
14 - suppress tracing through IDLE internals (e.g. print) DONE
15 - add a button to suppress through a specific module or class or method
16 - more object inspection to stack viewer, e.g. to view all array items
17 - insert the initial current directory into sys.path DONE
18 - default directory attribute for each window instead of only for windows
19 that have an associated filename
20 - command expansion from keywords, module contents, other buffers, etc.
21 - "Recent documents" menu item DONE
22 - Filter region command
23 - Optional horizontal scroll bar
24 - more Emacsisms:
25 - ^K should cut to buffer
26 - M-[, M-] to move by paragraphs
27 - incremental search?
28 - search should indicate wrap-around in some way
29 - restructure state sensitive code to avoid testing flags all the time
30 - persistent user state (e.g. window and cursor positions, bindings)
31 - make backups when saving
32 - check file mtimes at various points
33 - Pluggable interface with RCS/CVS/Perforce/Clearcase
34 - better help?
35 - don't open second class browser on same module (nor second path browser)
36 - unify class and path browsers
37 - Need to define a standard way whereby one can determine one is running
38 inside IDLE (needed for Tk mainloop, also handy for $PYTHONSTARTUP)
39 - Add more utility methods for use by extensions (a la get_selection)
40 - Way to run command in totally separate interpreter (fork+os.system?) DONE
41 - Way to find definition of fully-qualified name:
42 In other words, select "UserDict.UserDict", hit some magic key and
43 it loads up UserDict.py and finds the first def or class for UserDict.
44 - need a way to force colorization on/off
45 - need a way to force auto-indent on/off
46
47 Details:
48
49 - ^O (on Unix -- open-line) should honor autoindent
50 - after paste, show end of pasted text
51 - on Windows, should turn short filename to long filename (not only in argv!)
52 (shouldn't this be done -- or undone -- by ntpath.normpath?)
53 - new autoindent after colon even indents when the colon is in a comment!
54 - sometimes forward slashes in pathname remain
55 - sometimes star in window name remains in Windows menu
56 - With unix bindings, ESC by itself is ignored
57 - Sometimes for no apparent reason a selection from the cursor to the
58 end of the command buffer appears, which is hard to get rid of
59 because it stays when you are typing!
60 - The Line/Col in the status bar can be wrong initially in PyShell DONE
61
62 Structural problems:
63
64 - too much knowledge in FileList about EditorWindow (for example)
65 - should add some primitives for accessing the selection etc.
66 to repeat cumbersome code over and over
67
68 ======================================================================
69
70 Jeff Bauer suggests:
71
72 - Open Module doesn't appear to handle hierarchical packages.
73 - Class browser should also allow hierarchical packages.
74 - Open and Open Module could benefit from a history, DONE
75 either command line style, or Microsoft recent-file
76 style.
77 - Add a Smalltalk-style inspector (i.e. Tkinspect)
78
79 The last suggestion is already a reality, but not yet
80 integrated into IDLE. I use a module called inspector.py,
81 that used to be available from python.org(?) It no longer
82 appears to be in the contributed section, and the source
83 has no author attribution.
84
85 In any case, the code is useful for visually navigating
86 an object's attributes, including its container hierarchy.
87
88 >>> from inspector import Tkinspect
89 >>> Tkinspect(None, myObject)
90
91 Tkinspect could probably be extended and refined to
92 integrate better into IDLE.
93
94 ======================================================================
95
96 Comparison to PTUI
97 ------------------
98
99 + PTUI's help is better (HTML!)
100
101 + PTUI can attach a shell to any module
102
103 + PTUI has some more I/O commands:
104 open multiple
105 append
106 examine (what's that?)
107
108 ======================================================================
109
110 Notes after trying to run Grail
111 -------------------------------
112
113 - Grail does stuff to sys.path based on sys.argv[0]; you must set
114 sys.argv[0] to something decent first (it is normally set to the path of
115 the idle script).
116
117 - Grail must be exec'ed in __main__ because that's imported by some
118 other parts of Grail.
119
120 - Grail uses a module called History and so does idle :-(
121
122 ======================================================================
123
124 Robin Friedrich's items:
125
126 Things I'd like to see:
127 - I'd like support for shift-click extending the selection. There's a
128 bug now that it doesn't work the first time you try it.
129 - Printing is needed. How hard can that be on Windows? FIRST CUT DONE
130 - The python-mode trick of autoindenting a line with <tab> is neat and
131 very handy.
132 - (someday) a spellchecker for docstrings and comments.
133 - a pagedown/up command key which moves to next class/def statement (top
134 level)
135 - split window capability
136 - DnD text relocation/copying
137
138 Things I don't want to see.
139 - line numbers... will probably slow things down way too much.
140 - Please use another icon for the tree browser leaf. The small snake
141 isn't cutting it.
142
143 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
144
145 - Customizable views (multi-window or multi-pane). (Markus Gritsch)
146
147 - Being able to double click (maybe double right click) on a callable
148 object in the editor which shows the source of the object, if
149 possible. (Gerrit Holl)
150
151 - Hooks into the guts, like in Emacs. (Mike Romberg)
152
153 - Sharing the editor with a remote tutor. (Martijn Faassen)
154
155 - Multiple views on the same file. (Tony J Ibbs)
156
157 - Store breakpoints in a global (per-project) database (GvR); Dirk
158 Heise adds: save some space-trimmed context and search around when
159 reopening a file that might have been edited by someone else.
160
161 - Capture menu events in extensions without changing the IDLE source.
162 (Matthias Barmeier)
163
164 - Use overlapping panels (a "notebook" in MFC terms I think) for info
165 that doesn't need to be accessible simultaneously (e.g. HTML source
166 and output). Use multi-pane windows for info that does need to be
167 shown together (e.g. class browser and source). (Albert Brandl)
168
169 - A project should invisibly track all symbols, for instant search,
170 replace and cross-ref. Projects should be allowed to span multiple
171 directories, hosts, etc. Project management files are placed in a
172 directory you specify. A global mapping between project names and
173 project directories should exist [not so sure --GvR]. (Tim Peters)
174
175 - Merge attr-tips and auto-expand. (Mark Hammond, Tim Peters)
176
177 - Python Shell should behave more like a "shell window" as users know
178 it -- i.e. you can only edit the current command, and the cursor can't
179 escape from the command area. (Albert Brandl)
180
181 - Set X11 class to "idle/Idle", set icon and title to something
182 beginning with "idle" -- for window manangers. (Randall Hopper)
183
184 - Config files editable through a preferences dialog. (me) DONE
185
186 - Config files still editable outside the preferences dialog.
187 (Randall Hopper) DONE
188
189 - When you're editing a command in PyShell, and there are only blank
190 lines below the cursor, hitting Return should ignore or delete those
191 blank lines rather than deciding you're not on the last line. (me)
192
193 - Run command (F5 c.s.) should be more like Pythonwin's Run -- a
194 dialog with options to give command line arguments, run the debugger,
195 etc. (me)
196
197 - Shouldn't be able to delete part of the prompt (or any text before
198 it) in the PyShell. (Martijn Faassen) DONE
199
200 - Emacs style auto-fill (also smart about comments and strings).
201 (Jeremy Hylton)
202
203 - Output of Run Script should go to a separate output window, not to
204 the shell window. Output of separate runs should all go to the same
205 window but clearly delimited. (David Scherer) REJECT FIRST, LATTER DONE
206
207 - GUI form designer to kick VB's butt. (Robert Geiger) THAT'S NOT IDLE
208
209 - Printing! Possibly via generation of PDF files which the user must
210 then send to the printer separately. (Dinu Gherman) FIRST CUT