[Idle-dev] Submitted Guilherme Polo's enhancement

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<AANLkTinVuAmQhJFwLs9_Szqj52wr7eZUmQxDVPtzkhAT at mail.gmail.com>,
 Bruce Sherwood <basherwo at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Yup. Using IDLE on Python 2.7 on a Mac, cmd-Q (or the corresponding
> menu option, for that matter), there is no prompt to save unsaved
> files. I hope someone more knowledgeable than me about IDLE can find
> the problem, or maybe just suggest where I should look. I'll keep
> looking, but as I said, I'm baffled that I can't even identify what
> code gets executed upon pressing cmd-Q.
> 
> I'll go ahead and prepare a patch for idle for Python 2.7 right away
> that won't have a fix for this serious save problem. The save issue
> can be considered separately.

If I understand correctly, quitting without prompting for unsaved files 
is not a new problem with 2.7; I see the same behavior with 2.6.  It 
would be best, I think, to open an issue on the bug tracker for that 
problem and any other new specific problems.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org