[Idle-dev] (no subject)

[Guido van Rossum]

> I've been using Dave Scherer's version of idle (XIDLE-1000-03-13.zip).
> I strongly support these changes, I now use idle regularly, whereas 
> before I only used it out of idle curiosity.
> It fits very well with the way I work and develop code.

Yes, we're planning to implement something like this before Python 1.6
final comes out.  We have something slightly more ambitious in mind,
so please be patient.

> My only glitch is the saving of named buffers automatically before 
> running. This is convenient but I have been burned by making changes 
> and then deciding to go back only to find that my original is gone. 
> Perhaps, if an explicit save is not done there could be a backup made 
> a la emacs.

Making backups is a good policy anyway, this needs to be added.

But it should at least ask before saving.  I guess if you don't save
it can't run, because the other process can't see the unsaved source.

Also note that you can use undo to go back before the last save!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)