[Idle-dev] Deprecate running IDLE without a subprocess

[Roger Serwy]

On 06/12/2012 06:45 AM, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin wrote:
> I'd say unsaved source is rare case; the more precious thing lost is 
> the shell window - commands history and outputs.
> This is a problem both when you have kill IDLE itself because the 
> executed code is stuck,
> and when you just want ensure a clean run - without Restart Shell 
> functionality, you have to close and reopen IDLE, again losing shell 
> history
> (one could remember to always Save As the shell window, but there's no 
> convenient way to load it inside IDLE).
>
When you say shell history, do you mean IdleHistory.py's History object 
or the contents of the shell window?

I have written an extension to automatically save and restore the 
History object for IDLE, as part of IdleX.