[Idle-dev] Feedback requested on issue 17609: IDLE: Remove config option 'editor on startup' and utilize command line options

[Bruce Sherwood]

Unless this is somehow tied solely to running IDLE from a terminal, for my
purposes this is a terrible idea. For the thousands of students in our
intro physics curriculum who use VIDLE (which I hope eventually can be
replaced by using an updated IDLE), it is extremely important that starting
IDLE (by clicking on an icon) display only an edit window at startup. By
all means provide as many options in the config file as you like, but don't
take away the capability of configuring IDLE on startup to display only an
edit window.

If the change you propose doesn't make it impossible to configure IDLE to
start with only an edit window, then I don't care.


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:58 AM, francis <francismb at email.de> wrote:

> Hi Todd,
>
>  Greetings,
>>     Please take a look at issue 17609:
>> http://bugs.python.org/**issue17609 <http://bugs.python.org/issue17609>
>>
>> We are thinking about removing the startup option to start a editor only
>> on startup and replace with the command line options only.  Please feel
>> free to comment on the issue directly on the issue tracker.  Thanks!!!
>>
>>  Just trying to list the actual ways / options to start the idle and how
> it's expected to behave. Please feel free to change/expand
> it:
>
> "StartUp             "IDLE          "IDLE
> Way/Option"          Editor"        interative"
> ------------------------------**------------------
>
> CLI idle -e           Yes            No
> CLI idle -i           No             Yes
> CLI idle              No             Yes
> 2-click .py           ?              ?
> 2-click idle.app      No             Yes
> ?
>
> Regards,
>
> francis
>
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