[Idle-dev] IDLE suggestions

[Michael Foord]

Tal Einat wrote:
> On 2/8/07, *BBands* <bbands at gmail.com <mailto:bbands at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     So, in reply to Tal's replies:
>
>     I have had trouble with cut and paste to the shell where I wanted to
>     paste a function or multiple lines. If your paste code idea allows
>     that, it will be good for me. (I don't use tabs in Python.) 
>
>
> See initial implementation in separate mail :D
>
>     Instead of projects might save/restore a workspace be an idea? 
>
>
> That's an nice idea, sounds good to me.
>
>     As for paren matching, as of Python 2.5, IDLE 1.2 it is not working as
>     I would expect on xp. For example, I would expect the pair of
>     parens/brackets to change color when the cursor hits one. Right now
>     the first one or two of panen completions get greyed, after that
>     nothing else happens though ctrl-0 works. If you let me know how it is
>     intended to work I'll test it and post a field report.
>
>
> Well, sounds like it's working just fine. Currently IDLE doesn't flash 
> matching parens every time the cursor hits one. I've seen other IDEs 
> do this, and it is somewhat useful, mostly to catch unbalanced parens 
> early.
>
> I'd like to hear some opinions on this - which behavior is preferred? 
> Having matching parens highlight whenever the cursor is on one, or 
> only when typed or Ctrl-<zero> is hit?
If the coloring is subtle I prefer automatic highlighting.

It makes it easier when you are stepping through nested expressions to 
have the parens highlighted automatically...

Fuzzyman
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