[Idle-dev] Pinging commiters about patches

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/21/2015 12:49 PM, Tal Einat wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>>
>> More important is whether these dialogs have to be modal.
>> Notepad++ has one non-modal box with 4 tabs, including the
>> 3 windows Idle has.
>
> Quite a few years ago I created SearchBar, a non-modal replacement for
> the find and replace windows as an IDLE extensions. Besides being
> non-modal, it also had great features, including highlighting all
> matches and live incremental searching. It never got accepted due to
> various UI issues that came up after I no longer had time to work on
> it and it didn't work properly on the newer versions of IDLE.
>
> I did spend a *lot* of work on it, especially on optimizing the search
> so that incremental search and highlighting of all matches were fast
> enough. I'd love to see this eventually make it into IDLE!
>
> Note that I didn't create a replacement for the "Find in Files"
> dialog; that requires showing matches in an entirely different way,
> and is still often done using a modal dialog in many modern IDEs.
>
> If anyone would like to pursue this, I'd be happy to help!
>
>
> References:
>
> Message to idle-dev in 2009:
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2009-June/002767.html
>
> Additional discussion on a related issue about a year ago:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue13630
>
> On PyPI:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SearchBar/

I added this to my notes on Find issues.

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Terry Jan Reedy