[Idle-dev] IDLE "shell" (was: IDLE interpreter window)

[Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I've worked with systems where the input and output area were
> phyisically separate, and they confused me.

Ah...

> But I do like the bash-in-an-xterm model (For Windows 9x users,
> DOSKEY; for NT users, a DOS box): it looks like a single text area,
> and you can select text anywhere with the mouse for copying, but you
> can only ever edit the current command line.

Aha...

I don't particularly care whether there is a "physical" separator visible,
since as far as I can see that's the only difference between the two
approaches!

> My plan is for the next version of IDLE to *look* exactly the way it
> currently looks, but to completely disallow you from editing the text
> before the beginning of the current command.  This shouldn't be too
> hard (the undo framework already intercepts all changes, all I have to
> do is add a hook that rejects certain changes).

Well, it's not *quite* the time machine in action, but it certainly sounds
like it will make me happy (in the future) anyway...

Thanks in advance, Tibs

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