[Idle-dev] Startup Shell Functionality

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I would like the output window from F5 to be the shell, so that you
> > can examine the globals in the shell.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the context. But just in case, I'll comment that 
> when running from the editor I very much want to press F5 to run, not 
> CTRL-F5. F5 is a pretty standard shortcut in a lot of Windows applications, 
> and I definitely want some single key to trigger execution.

Agreed.

All I want is that instead of the relatively braindead output window,
the execution output should go into a PyShell window.  This is what
TeachScheme does.

TeachScheme completely resets the ouput window each time you run the
program; I prefer to keep the output from the old session around (like
your code does now), with some kind of separator, so you can compare.

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