This is a response form Erik Thompson to my question regarding what<br>he likes about IDLE and which features he finds missing.<br><br>Nothing too extraordinary, but things we're hearing to often:<br>* would like tabbed browsing of windows
<br>* hasn't found the "recent files" feature<br><br>On the same note,<br>What do you guys think of re-organizing our to-do list,<br>asking around the Python community and see which feature requests rise?<br><br>
- Tal<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Erik Thompson</b><br>Date: Nov 20, 2006 9:23 PM<br>Subject: Re: IDLE<br><br></span>Tal Einat wrote:<br>> Hi Erik, I just viewed your first VPython Video tutorial
<br>> for the first time... [snip]<br>
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> I was especially glad to discover that you use IDLE<br>> in your tutorials. I've been helping develop IDLE for the past year or<br>> so and am trying to push its development forward, and this is a great<br>> example of why it is useful. If you have any features you would have
<br>> wanted to see in IDLE, I would really like to hear about them. I'd<br>> also like to know what you like about IDLE.<br><br><span class="gmail_quote"></span>Hi Tal,<br><br>I'm glad you find VPython interesting as do I... [snip]
<br><br>I've been doing Python for just a couple years now. I used IDLE because<br>it was the first IDE I tried and I saw no reason to switch. In the<br>series I wanted to keep things simple with all the code for each program
<br>in one file and IDLE is well suited for that kind of developing.<br><br>I have since tried Stani's Python Editor and have been using it more often as<br>I like having several code files open at once where I can just click on
<br>a tab to see the one I want. It also remembers the last ones I had open<br>so when I'm working on a larger program over many days I don't have to<br>be constantly opening the individual files for that program. So I guess
<br>those would be the features I wouldn't mind seeing in IDLE. On the<br>other hand, one of the draws to IDLE is its simplicity. Once you open<br>the code window there isn't a lot of clutter or distractions in the<br>window which is kind of nice.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Erik<br>