https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/454af5880b40 changeset: 104169:454af5880b40 branch: 3.6 parent: 104165:d1214c0dab49 parent: 104168:b5705456d9da user: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> date: Fri Sep 30 00:02:28 2016 -0400 summary: Move idlelib/NEWS.txt entries for 2.x into a separate file -- NEWS2x.txt. Reformat a few early 3.x entries in HEWS.txt. Merge from 3.5. files: Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt | 686 +---------------------------- Lib/idlelib/NEWS2x.txt | 660 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 669 insertions(+), 677 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt --- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt +++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ - Issue # 12510: Attempt to get certain tool tips no longer crashes IDLE. Erroneous tool tips have been corrected. Default added for callables. -- Issue10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when +- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when parent window is closed while dialog is open. - Issue 14876: use user-selected font for highlight configuration. @@ -419,23 +419,18 @@ - Issue #1028: Ctrl-space binding to show completions was causing IDLE to exit. Tk < 8.5 was sending invalid Unicode null; replaced with valid null. -- <Home> toggle failing on Tk 8.5, causing IDLE exits and strange selection - behavior. Issue 4676. Improve selection extension behaviour. +- Issue #4676: <Home> toggle failing on Tk 8.5, causing IDLE exits and strange selection + behavior. Improve selection extension behaviour. -- <Home> toggle non-functional when NumLock set on Windows. Issue 3851. +- Issue #3851: <Home> toggle non-functional when NumLock set on Windows. What's New in IDLE 3.1b1? ========================= *Release date: 06-May-09* -- Use of 'filter' in keybindingDialog.py was causing custom key assignment to - fail. Patch 5707 amaury.forgeotdarc. - - -What's New in IDLE 3.1a1? -========================= -*Release date: 07-Mar-09* +- Issue #5707: Use of 'filter' in keybindingDialog.py was causing custom key assignment to + fail. Patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc. - Issue #4815: Offer conversion to UTF-8 if source files have no encoding declaration and are not encoded in UTF-8. @@ -450,669 +445,6 @@ - Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version would not start if a custom theme was defined. - -What's New in IDLE 2.7? (UNRELEASED, but merged into 3.1 releases above.) -======================= -*Release date: XX-XXX-2010* - -- idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental - versions of IDLE which are not installed in the standard location. - -- OutputWindow/PyShell right click menu "Go to file/line" wasn't working with - file paths containing spaces. Bug 5559. - -- Windows: Version string for the .chm help file changed, file not being - accessed Patch 5783 Guilherme Polo - -- Allow multiple IDLE GUI/subprocess pairs to exist simultaneously. Thanks to - David Scherer for suggesting the use of an ephemeral port for the GUI. - Patch 1529142 Weeble. - -- Remove port spec from run.py and fix bug where subprocess fails to - extract port from command line when warnings are present. - -- Tk 8.5 Text widget requires 'wordprocessor' tabstyle attr to handle - mixed space/tab properly. Issue 5129, patch by Guilherme Polo. - -- Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present - - -What's New in IDLE 3.0? -======================= -*Release date: 03-Dec-2008* - -- IDLE would print a "Unhandled server exception!" message when internal - debugging is enabled. - -- Issue #4455: IDLE failed to display the windows list when two windows have - the same title. - -- Issue #4383: When IDLE cannot make the connection to its subprocess, it would - fail to properly display the error message. - -- help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650. - -- CodeContext was not importing. - -- Corrected two 3.0 compatibility errors reported by Mark Summerfield: - http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-December/011491.html - -- Shell was not colorizing due to bug introduced at r57998, Bug 1586. - -- Issue #1585: IDLE uses non-existent xrange() function. - -- Windows EOL sequence not converted correctly, encoding error. - Caused file save to fail. Bug 1130. - -- IDLE converted to Python 3000 syntax. - -- Strings became Unicode. - -- CallTips module now uses the inspect module to produce the argspec. - -- IDLE modules now use absolute import instead of implied relative import. - -- atexit call replaces sys.exitfunc. The functionality of delete-exitfunc flag - in config-main.cfg remains unchanged: if set, registered exit functions will - be cleared before IDLE exits. - - -What's New in IDLE 2.6 -====================== -*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*, merged into 3.0 releases detailed above (3.0rc2) - -- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version - would not start if a custom theme was defined. - -- Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white - space. issue1196903, patch by Jeff Shute. - -- Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic. issue2062, patch by Tal Einat. - -- Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the - '/' char on Windows. issue2061 Patch by Tal Einat. - -- Configured selection highlighting colors were ignored; updating highlighting - in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they - were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator. Patch 1334. Tal Einat. - -- ScriptBinding event handlers weren't returning 'break'. Patch 2050, Tal Einat - -- There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647. - -- Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows. - Issue 1743, Issue 1862. - -- Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding. Patch 1457 Tal Einat. - -- tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows - of tabs. Patch 1612746 Tal Einat. - -- Add confirmation dialog before printing. Patch 1717170 Tal Einat. - -- Show paste position if > 80 col. Patch 1659326 Tal Einat. - -- Update cursor color without restarting. Patch 1725576 Tal Einat. - -- Allow keyboard interrupt only when user code is executing in subprocess. - Patch 1225 Tal Einat (reworked from IDLE-Spoon). - -- configDialog cleanup. Patch 1730217 Tal Einat. - -- textView cleanup. Patch 1718043 Tal Einat. - -- Clean up EditorWindow close. - -- Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X. Backport of r56204. - -- OSX: Avoid crash for those versions of Tcl/Tk which don't have a console - -- Bug in idlelib.MultiCall: Options dialog was crashing IDLE if there was an - option in config-extensions w/o a value. Patch #1672481, Tal Einat - -- Corrected some bugs in AutoComplete. Also, Page Up/Down in ACW implemented; - mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts - current selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll - wheel now works in ACW. Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help. - -- AutoCompleteWindow moved below input line, will move above if there - isn't enough space. Patch 1621265 Tal Einat - -- Calltips now 'handle' tuples in the argument list (display '<tuple>' :) - Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968. - -- Add 'raw' support to configHandler. Patch 1650174 Tal Einat. - -- Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112. - -- Patch #1362975: Rework CodeContext indentation algorithm to - avoid hard-coding pixel widths. - -- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent - is started with that option. - -- Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092) - -- Some syntax errors were being caught by tokenize during the tabnanny - check, resulting in obscure error messages. Do the syntax check - first. Bug 1562716, 1562719 - -- IDLE's version number takes a big jump to match the version number of - the Python release of which it's a part. - - -What's New in IDLE 1.2? -======================= -*Release date: 19-SEP-2006* - -- File menu hotkeys: there were three 'p' assignments. Reassign the - 'Save Copy As' and 'Print' hotkeys to 'y' and 't'. Change the - Shell hotkey from 's' to 'l'. - -- IDLE honors new quit() and exit() commands from site.py Quitter() object. - Patch 1540892, Jim Jewett - -- The 'with' statement is now a Code Context block opener. - Patch 1540851, Jim Jewett - -- Retrieval of previous shell command was not always preserving indentation - (since 1.2a1) Patch 1528468 Tal Einat. - -- Changing tokenize (39046) to detect dedent broke tabnanny check (since 1.2a1) - -- ToggleTab dialog was setting indent to 8 even if cancelled (since 1.2a1). - -- When used w/o subprocess, all exceptions were preceded by an error - message claiming they were IDLE internal errors (since 1.2a1). - -- Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips. - -- Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly - -- Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a - path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X - -- EditorWindow.test() was failing. Bug 1417598 - -- EditorWindow failed when used stand-alone if sys.ps1 not set. - Bug 1010370 Dave Florek - -- Tooltips failed on new-syle class __init__ args. Bug 1027566 Loren Guthrie - -- Avoid occasional failure to detect closing paren properly. - Patch 1407280 Tal Einat - -- Rebinding Tab key was inserting 'tab' instead of 'Tab'. Bug 1179168. - -- Colorizer now handles #<builtin> correctly, also unicode strings and - 'as' keyword in comment directly following import command. Closes 1325071. - Patch 1479219 Tal Einat - -- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles. - -- Source file f.flush() after writing; trying to avoid lossage if user - kills GUI. - -- Options / Keys / Advanced dialog made functional. Also, allow binding - of 'movement' keys. - -- 'syntax' patch adds improved calltips and a new class attribute listbox. - MultiCall module allows binding multiple actions to an event. - Patch 906702 Noam Raphael - -- Better indentation after first line of string continuation. - IDLEfork Patch 681992, Noam Raphael - -- Fixed CodeContext alignment problem, following suggestion from Tal Einat. - -- Increased performance in CodeContext extension Patch 936169 Noam Raphael - -- Mac line endings were incorrect when pasting code from some browsers - when using X11 and the Fink distribution. Python Bug 1263656. - -- <Enter> when cursor is on a previous command retrieves that command. Instead - of replacing the input line, the previous command is now appended to the - input line. Indentation is preserved, and undo is enabled. - Patch 1196917 Jeff Shute - -- Clarify "tab/space" Error Dialog and "Tab Width" Dialog associated with - the Untabify command. - -- Corrected "tab/space" Error Dialog to show correct menu for Untabify. - Patch 1196980 Jeff Shute - -- New files are colorized by default, and colorizing is removed when - saving as non-Python files. Patch 1196895 Jeff Shute - Closes Python Bugs 775012 and 800432, partial fix IDLEfork 763524 - -- Improve subprocess link error notification. - -- run.py: use Queue's blocking feature instead of sleeping in the main - loop. Patch # 1190163 Michiel de Hoon - -- Add config-main option to make the 'history' feature non-cyclic. - Default remains cyclic. Python Patch 914546 Noam Raphael. - -- Removed ability to configure tabs indent from Options dialog. This 'feature' - has never worked and no one has complained. It is still possible to set a - default tabs (v. spaces) indent 'manually' via config-main.def (or to turn on - tabs for the current EditorWindow via the Format menu) but IDLE will - encourage indentation via spaces. - -- Enable setting the indentation width using the Options dialog. - Bug # 783877 - -- Add keybindings for del-word-left and del-word-right. - -- Discourage using an indent width other than 8 when using tabs to indent - Python code. - -- Restore use of EditorWindow.set_indentation_params(), was dead code since - Autoindent was merged into EditorWindow. This allows IDLE to conform to the - indentation width of a loaded file. (But it still will not switch to tabs - even if the file uses tabs.) Any change in indent width is local to that - window. - -- Add Tabnanny check before Run/F5, not just when Checking module. - -- If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of - erroring out. - -- Improve error handling when .idlerc can't be created (warn and exit). - -- The GUI was hanging if the shell window was closed while a raw_input() - was pending. Restored the quit() of the readline() mainloop(). - http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2004-December/002307.html - -- The remote procedure call module rpc.py can now access data attributes of - remote registered objects. Changes to these attributes are local, however. - - -What's New in IDLE 1.1? -======================= -*Release date: 30-NOV-2004* - -- On OpenBSD, terminating IDLE with ctrl-c from the command line caused a - stuck subprocess MainThread because only the SocketThread was exiting. - -- Saving a Keyset w/o making changes (by using the "Save as New Custom Key Set" - button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in - config-keys.cfg). Also true for Theme/highlights. Python Bug 1064535. - -- A change to the linecache.py API caused IDLE to exit when an exception was - raised while running without the subprocess (-n switch). Python Bug 1063840. - -- When paragraph reformat width was made configurable, a bug was - introduced that caused reformatting of comment blocks to ignore how - far the block was indented, effectively adding the indentation width - to the reformat width. This has been repaired, and the reformat - width is again a bound on the total width of reformatted lines. - -- Improve keyboard focus binding, especially in Windows menu. Improve - window raising, especially in the Windows menu and in the debugger. - IDLEfork 763524. - -- If user passes a non-existent filename on the commandline, just - open a new file, don't raise a dialog. IDLEfork 854928. - -- EditorWindow.py was not finding the .chm help file on Windows. Typo - at Rev 1.54. Python Bug 990954 - -- checking sys.platform for substring 'win' was breaking IDLE docs on Mac - (darwin). Also, Mac Safari browser requires full file:// URIs. SF 900580. - -- Redirect the warning stream to the shell during the ScriptBinding check of - user code and format the warning similarly to an exception for both that - check and for runtime warnings raised in the subprocess. - -- CodeContext hint pane visibility state is now persistent across sessions. - The pane no longer appears in the shell window. Added capability to limit - extensions to shell window or editor windows. Noam Raphael addition - to Patch 936169. - -- Paragraph reformat width is now a configurable parameter in the - Options GUI. - -- New Extension: CodeContext. Provides block structuring hints for code - which has scrolled above an edit window. Patch 936169 Noam Raphael. - -- If nulls somehow got into the strings in recent-files.lst - EditorWindow.update_recent_files_list() was failing. Python Bug 931336. - -- If the normal background is changed via Configure/Highlighting, it will - update immediately, thanks to the previously mentioned patch by Nigel Rowe. - -- Add a highlight theme for builtin keywords. Python Patch 805830 Nigel Rowe - This also fixed IDLEfork bug [ 693418 ] Normal text background color not - refreshed and Python bug [897872 ] Unknown color name on HP-UX - -- rpc.py:SocketIO - Large modules were generating large pickles when downloaded - to the execution server. The return of the OK response from the subprocess - initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not - ready. Add an IO ready test to fix this. Moved the polling IO ready test - into pollpacket(). - -- Fix typo in rpc.py, s/b "pickle.PicklingError" not "pickle.UnpicklingError". - -- Added a Tk error dialog to run.py inform the user if the subprocess can't - connect to the user GUI process. Added a timeout to the GUI's listening - socket. Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind - the port or connect to the subprocess. Clean up error handling during - connection initiation phase. This is an update of Python Patch 778323. - -- Print correct exception even if source file changed since shell was - restarted. IDLEfork Patch 869012 Noam Raphael - -- Keybindings with the Shift modifier now work correctly. So do bindings which - use the Space key. Limit unmodified user keybindings to the function keys. - Python Bug 775353, IDLEfork Bugs 755647, 761557 - -- After an exception, run.py was not setting the exception vector. Noam - Raphael suggested correcting this so pdb's postmortem pm() would work. - IDLEfork Patch 844675 - -- IDLE now does not fail to save the file anymore if the Tk buffer is not a - Unicode string, yet eol_convention is. Python Bugs 774680, 788378 - -- IDLE didn't start correctly when Python was installed in "Program Files" on - W2K and XP. Python Bugs 780451, 784183 - -- config-main.def documentation incorrectly referred to idle- instead of - config- filenames. SF 782759 Also added note about .idlerc location. - - -What's New in IDLE 1.0? -======================= -*Release date: 29-Jul-2003* - -- Added a banner to the shell discussing warnings possibly raised by personal - firewall software. Added same comment to README.txt. - -- Calltip error when docstring was None Python Bug 775541 - -- Updated extend.txt, help.txt, and config-extensions.def to correctly - reflect the current status of the configuration system. Python Bug 768469 - -- Fixed: Call Tip Trimming May Loop Forever. Python Patch 769142 (Daniels) - -- Replaced apply(f, args, kwds) with f(*args, **kwargs) to improve performance - Python Patch 768187 - -- Break or continue statements outside a loop were causing IDLE crash - Python Bug 767794 - -- Convert Unicode strings from readline to IOBinding.encoding. Also set - sys.std{in|out|err}.encoding, for both the local and the subprocess case. - SF IDLEfork patch 682347. - -- Extend AboutDialog.ViewFile() to support file encodings. Make the CREDITS - file Latin-1. - -- Updated the About dialog to reflect re-integration into Python. Provide - buttons to display Python's NEWS, License, and Credits, plus additional - buttons for IDLE's README and NEWS. - -- TextViewer() now has a third parameter which allows inserting text into the - viewer instead of reading from a file. - -- (Created the .../Lib/idlelib directory in the Python CVS, which is a clone of - IDLEfork modified to install in the Python environment. The code in the - interrupt module has been moved to thread.interrupt_main(). ) - -- Printing the Shell window was failing if it was not saved first SF 748975 - -- When using the Search in Files dialog, if the user had a selection - highlighted in his Editor window, insert it into the dialog search field. - -- The Python Shell entry was disappearing from the Windows menu. - -- Update the Windows file list when a file name change occurs - -- Change to File / Open Module: always pop up the dialog, using the current - selection as the default value. This is easier to use habitually. - -- Avoided a problem with starting the subprocess when 'localhost' doesn't - resolve to the user's loopback interface. SF 747772 - -- Fixed an issue with highlighted errors never de-colorizing. SF 747677. Also - improved notification of Tabnanny Token Error. - -- File / New will by default save in the directory of the Edit window from - which it was initiated. SF 748973 Guido van Rossum patch. - - -What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1? -============================= -*Release date: 02-Jun-2003* - -- The current working directory of the execution environment (and shell - following completion of execution) is now that of the module being run. - -- Added the delete-exitfunc option to config-main.def. (This option is not - included in the Options dialog.) Setting this to True (the default) will - cause IDLE to not run sys.exitfunc/atexit when the subprocess exits. - -- IDLE now preserves the line ending codes when editing a file produced on - a different platform. SF 661759, SF 538584 - -- Reduced default editor font size to 10 point and increased window height - to provide a better initial impression on Windows. - -- Options / Fonts/Tabs / Set Base Editor Font: List box was not highlighting - the default font when first installed on Windows. SF 661676 - -- Added Autosave feature: when user runs code from edit window, if the file - has been modified IDLE will silently save it if Autosave is enabled. The - option is set in the Options dialog, and the default is to prompt the - user to save the file. SF 661318 Bruce Sherwood patch. - -- Improved the RESTART annotation in the shell window when the user restarts - the shell while it is generating output. Also improved annotation when user - repeatedly hammers the Ctrl-F6 restart. - -- Allow IDLE to run when not installed and cwd is not the IDLE directory - SF Patch 686254 "Run IDLEfork from any directory without set-up" - Raphael - -- When a module is run from an EditorWindow: if its directory is not in - sys.path, prepend it. This allows the module to import other modules in - the same directory. Do the same for a script run from the command line. - -- Correctly restart the subprocess if it is running user code and the user - attempts to run some other module or restarts the shell. Do the same if - the link is broken and it is possible to restart the subprocess and re- - connect to the GUI. SF RFE 661321. - -- Improved exception reporting when running commands or scripts from the - command line. - -- Added a -n command line switch to start IDLE without the subprocess. - Removed the Shell menu when running in that mode. Updated help messages. - -- Added a comment to the shell startup header to indicate when IDLE is not - using the subprocess. - -- Restore the ability to run without the subprocess. This can be important for - some platforms or configurations. (Running without the subprocess allows the - debugger to trace through parts of IDLE itself, which may or may not be - desirable, depending on your point of view. In addition, the traditional - reload/import tricks must be use if user source code is changed.) This is - helpful for developing IDLE using IDLE, because one instance can be used to - edit the code and a separate instance run to test changes. (Multiple - concurrent IDLE instances with subprocesses is a future feature) - -- Improve the error message a user gets when saving a file with non-ASCII - characters and no source encoding is specified. Done by adding a dialog - 'EncodingMessage', which contains the line to add in a fixed-font entry - widget, and which has a button to add that line to the file automatically. - Also, add a configuration option 'EditorWindow/encoding', which has three - possible values: none, utf-8, and locale. None is the default: IDLE will show - this dialog when non-ASCII characters are encountered. utf-8 means that files - with non-ASCII characters are saved as utf-8-with-bom. locale means that - files are saved in the locale's encoding; the dialog is only displayed if the - source contains characters outside the locale's charset. SF 710733 - Loewis - -- Improved I/O response by tweaking the wait parameter in various - calls to signal.signal(). - -- Implemented a threaded subprocess which allows interrupting a pass - loop in user code using the 'interrupt' extension. User code runs - in MainThread, while the RPCServer is handled by SockThread. This is - necessary because Windows doesn't support signals. - -- Implemented the 'interrupt' extension module, which allows a subthread - to raise a KeyboardInterrupt in the main thread. - -- Attempting to save the shell raised an error related to saving - breakpoints, which are not implemented in the shell - -- Provide a correct message when 'exit' or 'quit' are entered at the - IDLE command prompt SF 695861 - -- Eliminate extra blank line in shell output caused by not flushing - stdout when user code ends with an unterminated print. SF 695861 - -- Moved responsibility for exception formatting (i.e. pruning IDLE internal - calls) out of rpc.py into the client and server. - -- Exit IDLE cleanly even when doing subprocess I/O - -- Handle subprocess interrupt with an RPC message. - -- Restart the subprocess if it terminates itself. (VPython programs do that) - -- Support subclassing of exceptions, including in the shell, by moving the - exception formatting to the subprocess. - - -What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2? -=================================== -*Release date: 27-Jan-2003* - -- Updated INSTALL.txt to claify use of the python2 rpm. - -- Improved formatting in IDLE Help. - -- Run menu: Replace "Run Script" with "Run Module". - -- Code encountering an unhandled exception under the debugger now shows - the correct traceback, with IDLE internal levels pruned out. - -- If an exception occurs entirely in IDLE, don't prune the IDLE internal - modules from the traceback displayed. - -- Class Browser and Path Browser now use Alt-Key-2 for vertical zoom. - -- IDLE icons will now install correctly even when setup.py is run from the - build directory - -- Class Browser now compatible with Python2.3 version of pyclbr.py - -- Left cursor move in presence of selected text now moves from left end - of the selection. - -- Add Meta keybindings to "IDLE Classic Windows" to handle reversed - Alt/Meta on some Linux distros. - -- Change default: IDLE now starts with Python Shell. - -- Removed the File Path from the Additional Help Sources scrolled list. - -- Add capability to access Additional Help Sources on the web if the - Help File Path begins with //http or www. (Otherwise local path is - validated, as before.) - -- Additional Help Sources were not being posted on the Help menu in the - order entered. Implement sorting the list by [HelpFiles] 'option' - number. - -- Add Browse button to New Help Source dialog. Arrange to start in - Python/Doc if platform is Windows, otherwise start in current directory. - -- Put the Additional Help Sources directly on the Help menu instead of in - an Extra Help cascade menu. Rearrange the Help menu so the Additional - Help Sources come last. Update help.txt appropriately. - -- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configSectionNameDialog.py and configDialog.py - -- Uniform capitalization in General tab of ConfigDialog, update the doc string. - -- Fix bug in ConfigDialog where SaveAllChangedConfig() was unexpectedly - deleting Additional Help Sources from the user's config file. - -- Make configHelpSourceEdit OK button the default and bind <Return> - -- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configHelpSourceEdit: error dialogs not attached - to parents. - -- Use os.startfile() to open both Additional Help and Python Help on the - Windows platform. The application associated with the file type will act as - the viewer. Windows help files (.chm) are now supported via the - Settings/General/Additional Help facility. - -- If Python Help files are installed locally on Linux, use them instead of - accessing python.org. - -- Make the methods for finding the Python help docs more robust, and make - them work in the installed configuration, also. - -- On the Save Before Run dialog, make the OK button the default. One - less mouse action! - -- Add a method: EditorWindow.get_geometry() for future use in implementing - window location persistence. - -- Removed the "Help/Advice" menu entry. Thanks, David! We'll remember! - -- Change the "Classic Windows" theme's paste key to be <ctrl-v>. - -- Rearrange the Shell menu to put Stack Viewer entries adjacent. - -- Add the ability to restart the subprocess interpreter from the shell window; - add an associated menu entry "Shell/Restart" with binding Control-F6. Update - IDLE help. - -- Upon a restart, annotate the shell window with a "restart boundary". Add a - shell window menu "Shell/View Restart" with binding F6 to jump to the most - recent restart boundary. - -- Add Shell menu to Python Shell; change "Settings" to "Options". - -- Remove incorrect comment in setup.py: IDLEfork is now installed as a package. - -- Add INSTALL.txt, HISTORY.txt, NEWS.txt to installed configuration. - -- In installer text, fix reference to Visual Python, should be VPython. - Properly credit David Scherer. - -- Modified idle, idle.py, idle.pyw to improve exception handling. - - -What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 1? -=================================== -*Release date: 31-Dec-2002* - -- First release of major new functionality. For further details refer to - Idle-dev and/or the Sourceforge CVS. - -- Adapted to the Mac platform. - -- Overhauled the IDLE startup options and revised the idle -h help message, - which provides details of command line usage. - -- Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements. - -- Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The output - of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to inspect the - environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1 the shell - environment was separate from the environment of the user code.) - -- Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog. - -- Removed David Scherer's Remote Procedure Call code and replaced with Guido - van Rossum's. GvR code has support for the IDLE debugger and uses the shell - to inspect the environment of code Run from an Edit window. Files removed: - ExecBinding.py, loader.py, protocol.py, Remote.py, spawn.py - --------------------------------------------------------------------- -Refer to HISTORY.txt for additional information on earlier releases. --------------------------------------------------------------------- +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Refer to NEWS2x.txt and HISTORY.txt for information on earlier releases. +------------------------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS2x.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS2x.txt new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS2x.txt @@ -0,0 +1,660 @@ +What's New in IDLE 2.7? (Merged into 3.1 before 2.7 release.) +======================= +*Release date: XX-XXX-2010* + +- idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental + versions of IDLE which are not installed in the standard location. + +- OutputWindow/PyShell right click menu "Go to file/line" wasn't working with + file paths containing spaces. Bug 5559. + +- Windows: Version string for the .chm help file changed, file not being + accessed Patch 5783 Guilherme Polo + +- Allow multiple IDLE GUI/subprocess pairs to exist simultaneously. Thanks to + David Scherer for suggesting the use of an ephemeral port for the GUI. + Patch 1529142 Weeble. + +- Remove port spec from run.py and fix bug where subprocess fails to + extract port from command line when warnings are present. + +- Tk 8.5 Text widget requires 'wordprocessor' tabstyle attr to handle + mixed space/tab properly. Issue 5129, patch by Guilherme Polo. + +- Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present + +- IDLE would print a "Unhandled server exception!" message when internal + debugging is enabled. + +- Issue #4455: IDLE failed to display the windows list when two windows have + the same title. + +- Issue #4383: When IDLE cannot make the connection to its subprocess, it would + fail to properly display the error message. + +- help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650. + +- CodeContext was not importing. + +- Corrected two 3.0 compatibility errors reported by Mark Summerfield: + http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-December/011491.html + +- Shell was not colorizing due to bug introduced at r57998, Bug 1586. + +- Issue #1585: IDLE uses non-existent xrange() function. + +- Windows EOL sequence not converted correctly, encoding error. + Caused file save to fail. Bug 1130. + +- IDLE converted to Python 3000 syntax. + +- Strings became Unicode. + +- CallTips module now uses the inspect module to produce the argspec. + +- IDLE modules now use absolute import instead of implied relative import. + +- atexit call replaces sys.exitfunc. The functionality of delete-exitfunc flag + in config-main.cfg remains unchanged: if set, registered exit functions will + be cleared before IDLE exits. + + +What's New in IDLE 2.6 +====================== +*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*, merged into 3.0 releases detailed above (3.0rc2) + +- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version + would not start if a custom theme was defined. + +- Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white + space. issue1196903, patch by Jeff Shute. + +- Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic. issue2062, patch by Tal Einat. + +- Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the + '/' char on Windows. issue2061 Patch by Tal Einat. + +- Configured selection highlighting colors were ignored; updating highlighting + in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they + were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator. Patch 1334. Tal Einat. + +- ScriptBinding event handlers weren't returning 'break'. Patch 2050, Tal Einat + +- There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647. + +- Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows. + Issue 1743, Issue 1862. + +- Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding. Patch 1457 Tal Einat. + +- tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows + of tabs. Patch 1612746 Tal Einat. + +- Add confirmation dialog before printing. Patch 1717170 Tal Einat. + +- Show paste position if > 80 col. Patch 1659326 Tal Einat. + +- Update cursor color without restarting. Patch 1725576 Tal Einat. + +- Allow keyboard interrupt only when user code is executing in subprocess. + Patch 1225 Tal Einat (reworked from IDLE-Spoon). + +- configDialog cleanup. Patch 1730217 Tal Einat. + +- textView cleanup. Patch 1718043 Tal Einat. + +- Clean up EditorWindow close. + +- Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X. Backport of r56204. + +- OSX: Avoid crash for those versions of Tcl/Tk which don't have a console + +- Bug in idlelib.MultiCall: Options dialog was crashing IDLE if there was an + option in config-extensions w/o a value. Patch #1672481, Tal Einat + +- Corrected some bugs in AutoComplete. Also, Page Up/Down in ACW implemented; + mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts + current selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll + wheel now works in ACW. Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help. + +- AutoCompleteWindow moved below input line, will move above if there + isn't enough space. Patch 1621265 Tal Einat + +- Calltips now 'handle' tuples in the argument list (display '<tuple>' :) + Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968. + +- Add 'raw' support to configHandler. Patch 1650174 Tal Einat. + +- Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112. + +- Patch #1362975: Rework CodeContext indentation algorithm to + avoid hard-coding pixel widths. + +- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent + is started with that option. + +- Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092) + +- Some syntax errors were being caught by tokenize during the tabnanny + check, resulting in obscure error messages. Do the syntax check + first. Bug 1562716, 1562719 + +- IDLE's version number takes a big jump to match the version number of + the Python release of which it's a part. + + +What's New in IDLE 1.2? +======================= +*Release date: 19-SEP-2006* + +- File menu hotkeys: there were three 'p' assignments. Reassign the + 'Save Copy As' and 'Print' hotkeys to 'y' and 't'. Change the + Shell hotkey from 's' to 'l'. + +- IDLE honors new quit() and exit() commands from site.py Quitter() object. + Patch 1540892, Jim Jewett + +- The 'with' statement is now a Code Context block opener. + Patch 1540851, Jim Jewett + +- Retrieval of previous shell command was not always preserving indentation + (since 1.2a1) Patch 1528468 Tal Einat. + +- Changing tokenize (39046) to detect dedent broke tabnanny check (since 1.2a1) + +- ToggleTab dialog was setting indent to 8 even if cancelled (since 1.2a1). + +- When used w/o subprocess, all exceptions were preceded by an error + message claiming they were IDLE internal errors (since 1.2a1). + +- Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips. + +- Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly + +- Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a + path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X + +- EditorWindow.test() was failing. Bug 1417598 + +- EditorWindow failed when used stand-alone if sys.ps1 not set. + Bug 1010370 Dave Florek + +- Tooltips failed on new-syle class __init__ args. Bug 1027566 Loren Guthrie + +- Avoid occasional failure to detect closing paren properly. + Patch 1407280 Tal Einat + +- Rebinding Tab key was inserting 'tab' instead of 'Tab'. Bug 1179168. + +- Colorizer now handles #<builtin> correctly, also unicode strings and + 'as' keyword in comment directly following import command. Closes 1325071. + Patch 1479219 Tal Einat + +- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles. + +- Source file f.flush() after writing; trying to avoid lossage if user + kills GUI. + +- Options / Keys / Advanced dialog made functional. Also, allow binding + of 'movement' keys. + +- 'syntax' patch adds improved calltips and a new class attribute listbox. + MultiCall module allows binding multiple actions to an event. + Patch 906702 Noam Raphael + +- Better indentation after first line of string continuation. + IDLEfork Patch 681992, Noam Raphael + +- Fixed CodeContext alignment problem, following suggestion from Tal Einat. + +- Increased performance in CodeContext extension Patch 936169 Noam Raphael + +- Mac line endings were incorrect when pasting code from some browsers + when using X11 and the Fink distribution. Python Bug 1263656. + +- <Enter> when cursor is on a previous command retrieves that command. Instead + of replacing the input line, the previous command is now appended to the + input line. Indentation is preserved, and undo is enabled. + Patch 1196917 Jeff Shute + +- Clarify "tab/space" Error Dialog and "Tab Width" Dialog associated with + the Untabify command. + +- Corrected "tab/space" Error Dialog to show correct menu for Untabify. + Patch 1196980 Jeff Shute + +- New files are colorized by default, and colorizing is removed when + saving as non-Python files. Patch 1196895 Jeff Shute + Closes Python Bugs 775012 and 800432, partial fix IDLEfork 763524 + +- Improve subprocess link error notification. + +- run.py: use Queue's blocking feature instead of sleeping in the main + loop. Patch # 1190163 Michiel de Hoon + +- Add config-main option to make the 'history' feature non-cyclic. + Default remains cyclic. Python Patch 914546 Noam Raphael. + +- Removed ability to configure tabs indent from Options dialog. This 'feature' + has never worked and no one has complained. It is still possible to set a + default tabs (v. spaces) indent 'manually' via config-main.def (or to turn on + tabs for the current EditorWindow via the Format menu) but IDLE will + encourage indentation via spaces. + +- Enable setting the indentation width using the Options dialog. + Bug # 783877 + +- Add keybindings for del-word-left and del-word-right. + +- Discourage using an indent width other than 8 when using tabs to indent + Python code. + +- Restore use of EditorWindow.set_indentation_params(), was dead code since + Autoindent was merged into EditorWindow. This allows IDLE to conform to the + indentation width of a loaded file. (But it still will not switch to tabs + even if the file uses tabs.) Any change in indent width is local to that + window. + +- Add Tabnanny check before Run/F5, not just when Checking module. + +- If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of + erroring out. + +- Improve error handling when .idlerc can't be created (warn and exit). + +- The GUI was hanging if the shell window was closed while a raw_input() + was pending. Restored the quit() of the readline() mainloop(). + http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2004-December/002307.html + +- The remote procedure call module rpc.py can now access data attributes of + remote registered objects. Changes to these attributes are local, however. + + +What's New in IDLE 1.1? +======================= +*Release date: 30-NOV-2004* + +- On OpenBSD, terminating IDLE with ctrl-c from the command line caused a + stuck subprocess MainThread because only the SocketThread was exiting. + +- Saving a Keyset w/o making changes (by using the "Save as New Custom Key Set" + button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in + config-keys.cfg). Also true for Theme/highlights. Python Bug 1064535. + +- A change to the linecache.py API caused IDLE to exit when an exception was + raised while running without the subprocess (-n switch). Python Bug 1063840. + +- When paragraph reformat width was made configurable, a bug was + introduced that caused reformatting of comment blocks to ignore how + far the block was indented, effectively adding the indentation width + to the reformat width. This has been repaired, and the reformat + width is again a bound on the total width of reformatted lines. + +- Improve keyboard focus binding, especially in Windows menu. Improve + window raising, especially in the Windows menu and in the debugger. + IDLEfork 763524. + +- If user passes a non-existent filename on the commandline, just + open a new file, don't raise a dialog. IDLEfork 854928. + +- EditorWindow.py was not finding the .chm help file on Windows. Typo + at Rev 1.54. Python Bug 990954 + +- checking sys.platform for substring 'win' was breaking IDLE docs on Mac + (darwin). Also, Mac Safari browser requires full file:// URIs. SF 900580. + +- Redirect the warning stream to the shell during the ScriptBinding check of + user code and format the warning similarly to an exception for both that + check and for runtime warnings raised in the subprocess. + +- CodeContext hint pane visibility state is now persistent across sessions. + The pane no longer appears in the shell window. Added capability to limit + extensions to shell window or editor windows. Noam Raphael addition + to Patch 936169. + +- Paragraph reformat width is now a configurable parameter in the + Options GUI. + +- New Extension: CodeContext. Provides block structuring hints for code + which has scrolled above an edit window. Patch 936169 Noam Raphael. + +- If nulls somehow got into the strings in recent-files.lst + EditorWindow.update_recent_files_list() was failing. Python Bug 931336. + +- If the normal background is changed via Configure/Highlighting, it will + update immediately, thanks to the previously mentioned patch by Nigel Rowe. + +- Add a highlight theme for builtin keywords. Python Patch 805830 Nigel Rowe + This also fixed IDLEfork bug [ 693418 ] Normal text background color not + refreshed and Python bug [897872 ] Unknown color name on HP-UX + +- rpc.py:SocketIO - Large modules were generating large pickles when downloaded + to the execution server. The return of the OK response from the subprocess + initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not + ready. Add an IO ready test to fix this. Moved the polling IO ready test + into pollpacket(). + +- Fix typo in rpc.py, s/b "pickle.PicklingError" not "pickle.UnpicklingError". + +- Added a Tk error dialog to run.py inform the user if the subprocess can't + connect to the user GUI process. Added a timeout to the GUI's listening + socket. Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind + the port or connect to the subprocess. Clean up error handling during + connection initiation phase. This is an update of Python Patch 778323. + +- Print correct exception even if source file changed since shell was + restarted. IDLEfork Patch 869012 Noam Raphael + +- Keybindings with the Shift modifier now work correctly. So do bindings which + use the Space key. Limit unmodified user keybindings to the function keys. + Python Bug 775353, IDLEfork Bugs 755647, 761557 + +- After an exception, run.py was not setting the exception vector. Noam + Raphael suggested correcting this so pdb's postmortem pm() would work. + IDLEfork Patch 844675 + +- IDLE now does not fail to save the file anymore if the Tk buffer is not a + Unicode string, yet eol_convention is. Python Bugs 774680, 788378 + +- IDLE didn't start correctly when Python was installed in "Program Files" on + W2K and XP. Python Bugs 780451, 784183 + +- config-main.def documentation incorrectly referred to idle- instead of + config- filenames. SF 782759 Also added note about .idlerc location. + + +What's New in IDLE 1.0? +======================= +*Release date: 29-Jul-2003* + +- Added a banner to the shell discussing warnings possibly raised by personal + firewall software. Added same comment to README.txt. + +- Calltip error when docstring was None Python Bug 775541 + +- Updated extend.txt, help.txt, and config-extensions.def to correctly + reflect the current status of the configuration system. Python Bug 768469 + +- Fixed: Call Tip Trimming May Loop Forever. Python Patch 769142 (Daniels) + +- Replaced apply(f, args, kwds) with f(*args, **kwargs) to improve performance + Python Patch 768187 + +- Break or continue statements outside a loop were causing IDLE crash + Python Bug 767794 + +- Convert Unicode strings from readline to IOBinding.encoding. Also set + sys.std{in|out|err}.encoding, for both the local and the subprocess case. + SF IDLEfork patch 682347. + +- Extend AboutDialog.ViewFile() to support file encodings. Make the CREDITS + file Latin-1. + +- Updated the About dialog to reflect re-integration into Python. Provide + buttons to display Python's NEWS, License, and Credits, plus additional + buttons for IDLE's README and NEWS. + +- TextViewer() now has a third parameter which allows inserting text into the + viewer instead of reading from a file. + +- (Created the .../Lib/idlelib directory in the Python CVS, which is a clone of + IDLEfork modified to install in the Python environment. The code in the + interrupt module has been moved to thread.interrupt_main(). ) + +- Printing the Shell window was failing if it was not saved first SF 748975 + +- When using the Search in Files dialog, if the user had a selection + highlighted in his Editor window, insert it into the dialog search field. + +- The Python Shell entry was disappearing from the Windows menu. + +- Update the Windows file list when a file name change occurs + +- Change to File / Open Module: always pop up the dialog, using the current + selection as the default value. This is easier to use habitually. + +- Avoided a problem with starting the subprocess when 'localhost' doesn't + resolve to the user's loopback interface. SF 747772 + +- Fixed an issue with highlighted errors never de-colorizing. SF 747677. Also + improved notification of Tabnanny Token Error. + +- File / New will by default save in the directory of the Edit window from + which it was initiated. SF 748973 Guido van Rossum patch. + + +What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1? +============================= +*Release date: 02-Jun-2003* + +- The current working directory of the execution environment (and shell + following completion of execution) is now that of the module being run. + +- Added the delete-exitfunc option to config-main.def. (This option is not + included in the Options dialog.) Setting this to True (the default) will + cause IDLE to not run sys.exitfunc/atexit when the subprocess exits. + +- IDLE now preserves the line ending codes when editing a file produced on + a different platform. SF 661759, SF 538584 + +- Reduced default editor font size to 10 point and increased window height + to provide a better initial impression on Windows. + +- Options / Fonts/Tabs / Set Base Editor Font: List box was not highlighting + the default font when first installed on Windows. SF 661676 + +- Added Autosave feature: when user runs code from edit window, if the file + has been modified IDLE will silently save it if Autosave is enabled. The + option is set in the Options dialog, and the default is to prompt the + user to save the file. SF 661318 Bruce Sherwood patch. + +- Improved the RESTART annotation in the shell window when the user restarts + the shell while it is generating output. Also improved annotation when user + repeatedly hammers the Ctrl-F6 restart. + +- Allow IDLE to run when not installed and cwd is not the IDLE directory + SF Patch 686254 "Run IDLEfork from any directory without set-up" - Raphael + +- When a module is run from an EditorWindow: if its directory is not in + sys.path, prepend it. This allows the module to import other modules in + the same directory. Do the same for a script run from the command line. + +- Correctly restart the subprocess if it is running user code and the user + attempts to run some other module or restarts the shell. Do the same if + the link is broken and it is possible to restart the subprocess and re- + connect to the GUI. SF RFE 661321. + +- Improved exception reporting when running commands or scripts from the + command line. + +- Added a -n command line switch to start IDLE without the subprocess. + Removed the Shell menu when running in that mode. Updated help messages. + +- Added a comment to the shell startup header to indicate when IDLE is not + using the subprocess. + +- Restore the ability to run without the subprocess. This can be important for + some platforms or configurations. (Running without the subprocess allows the + debugger to trace through parts of IDLE itself, which may or may not be + desirable, depending on your point of view. In addition, the traditional + reload/import tricks must be use if user source code is changed.) This is + helpful for developing IDLE using IDLE, because one instance can be used to + edit the code and a separate instance run to test changes. (Multiple + concurrent IDLE instances with subprocesses is a future feature) + +- Improve the error message a user gets when saving a file with non-ASCII + characters and no source encoding is specified. Done by adding a dialog + 'EncodingMessage', which contains the line to add in a fixed-font entry + widget, and which has a button to add that line to the file automatically. + Also, add a configuration option 'EditorWindow/encoding', which has three + possible values: none, utf-8, and locale. None is the default: IDLE will show + this dialog when non-ASCII characters are encountered. utf-8 means that files + with non-ASCII characters are saved as utf-8-with-bom. locale means that + files are saved in the locale's encoding; the dialog is only displayed if the + source contains characters outside the locale's charset. SF 710733 - Loewis + +- Improved I/O response by tweaking the wait parameter in various + calls to signal.signal(). + +- Implemented a threaded subprocess which allows interrupting a pass + loop in user code using the 'interrupt' extension. User code runs + in MainThread, while the RPCServer is handled by SockThread. This is + necessary because Windows doesn't support signals. + +- Implemented the 'interrupt' extension module, which allows a subthread + to raise a KeyboardInterrupt in the main thread. + +- Attempting to save the shell raised an error related to saving + breakpoints, which are not implemented in the shell + +- Provide a correct message when 'exit' or 'quit' are entered at the + IDLE command prompt SF 695861 + +- Eliminate extra blank line in shell output caused by not flushing + stdout when user code ends with an unterminated print. SF 695861 + +- Moved responsibility for exception formatting (i.e. pruning IDLE internal + calls) out of rpc.py into the client and server. + +- Exit IDLE cleanly even when doing subprocess I/O + +- Handle subprocess interrupt with an RPC message. + +- Restart the subprocess if it terminates itself. (VPython programs do that) + +- Support subclassing of exceptions, including in the shell, by moving the + exception formatting to the subprocess. + + +What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2? +=================================== +*Release date: 27-Jan-2003* + +- Updated INSTALL.txt to claify use of the python2 rpm. + +- Improved formatting in IDLE Help. + +- Run menu: Replace "Run Script" with "Run Module". + +- Code encountering an unhandled exception under the debugger now shows + the correct traceback, with IDLE internal levels pruned out. + +- If an exception occurs entirely in IDLE, don't prune the IDLE internal + modules from the traceback displayed. + +- Class Browser and Path Browser now use Alt-Key-2 for vertical zoom. + +- IDLE icons will now install correctly even when setup.py is run from the + build directory + +- Class Browser now compatible with Python2.3 version of pyclbr.py + +- Left cursor move in presence of selected text now moves from left end + of the selection. + +- Add Meta keybindings to "IDLE Classic Windows" to handle reversed + Alt/Meta on some Linux distros. + +- Change default: IDLE now starts with Python Shell. + +- Removed the File Path from the Additional Help Sources scrolled list. + +- Add capability to access Additional Help Sources on the web if the + Help File Path begins with //http or www. (Otherwise local path is + validated, as before.) + +- Additional Help Sources were not being posted on the Help menu in the + order entered. Implement sorting the list by [HelpFiles] 'option' + number. + +- Add Browse button to New Help Source dialog. Arrange to start in + Python/Doc if platform is Windows, otherwise start in current directory. + +- Put the Additional Help Sources directly on the Help menu instead of in + an Extra Help cascade menu. Rearrange the Help menu so the Additional + Help Sources come last. Update help.txt appropriately. + +- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configSectionNameDialog.py and configDialog.py + +- Uniform capitalization in General tab of ConfigDialog, update the doc string. + +- Fix bug in ConfigDialog where SaveAllChangedConfig() was unexpectedly + deleting Additional Help Sources from the user's config file. + +- Make configHelpSourceEdit OK button the default and bind <Return> + +- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configHelpSourceEdit: error dialogs not attached + to parents. + +- Use os.startfile() to open both Additional Help and Python Help on the + Windows platform. The application associated with the file type will act as + the viewer. Windows help files (.chm) are now supported via the + Settings/General/Additional Help facility. + +- If Python Help files are installed locally on Linux, use them instead of + accessing python.org. + +- Make the methods for finding the Python help docs more robust, and make + them work in the installed configuration, also. + +- On the Save Before Run dialog, make the OK button the default. One + less mouse action! + +- Add a method: EditorWindow.get_geometry() for future use in implementing + window location persistence. + +- Removed the "Help/Advice" menu entry. Thanks, David! We'll remember! + +- Change the "Classic Windows" theme's paste key to be <ctrl-v>. + +- Rearrange the Shell menu to put Stack Viewer entries adjacent. + +- Add the ability to restart the subprocess interpreter from the shell window; + add an associated menu entry "Shell/Restart" with binding Control-F6. Update + IDLE help. + +- Upon a restart, annotate the shell window with a "restart boundary". Add a + shell window menu "Shell/View Restart" with binding F6 to jump to the most + recent restart boundary. + +- Add Shell menu to Python Shell; change "Settings" to "Options". + +- Remove incorrect comment in setup.py: IDLEfork is now installed as a package. + +- Add INSTALL.txt, HISTORY.txt, NEWS.txt to installed configuration. + +- In installer text, fix reference to Visual Python, should be VPython. + Properly credit David Scherer. + +- Modified idle, idle.py, idle.pyw to improve exception handling. + + +What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 1? +=================================== +*Release date: 31-Dec-2002* + +- First release of major new functionality. For further details refer to + Idle-dev and/or the Sourceforge CVS. + +- Adapted to the Mac platform. + +- Overhauled the IDLE startup options and revised the idle -h help message, + which provides details of command line usage. + +- Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements. + +- Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The output + of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to inspect the + environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1 the shell + environment was separate from the environment of the user code.) + +- Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog. + +- Removed David Scherer's Remote Procedure Call code and replaced with Guido + van Rossum's. GvR code has support for the IDLE debugger and uses the shell + to inspect the environment of code Run from an Edit window. Files removed: + ExecBinding.py, loader.py, protocol.py, Remote.py, spawn.py + +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +Refer to HISTORY.txt for additional information on earlier releases. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/cpython