[Idle-dev] Bug in cursor placement in IDLE editor windows

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/7/2017 7:06 PM, Irv Kalb wrote:

> Thank you Kevin and Terry for looking at this.  But now I'm very 
> confused about what to do.

I will open an issue and add Ned Deily, who is in charge of the Mac 
release, as nosy.  Let's see what he says.  I will post the link here.

> Terry said that I should install Tcl/TK 8.5.18, which I did, but I still 
> see the error.  He said that the current version of IDLE will not work 
> with 8.6.
> 
> However, Kevin said that 8.5.18 is a very old release, and I may solve 
> my problem by upgrading my installation of Tk.
> 
> So, should I attempt to install a newer version of Tk (8.6.?) - or am I 
> just stuck with this odd insertion cursor behavior for now?   (I am 
> using an absolutely vanilla download of Mac Python 3.6 from Python.org 
> <http://Python.org>)
> 
> Irv
> 
> PS:  By the way, I did test out the same thing on my Windows 10 system 
> at my school, and the issue does not happen there.  I realized that last 
> semester, this same classroom had a Mac, and I saw this problem there 
> (with Python 2.7).

Thanks for following up on this.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy