[Idle-dev] Feedback appreciated for two suggested new features

[Irv Kalb]

Hi,

I don't have a strong opinion about the details of the search and replace dialogs.  However, I can tell you that a change replacing the dialog box would be greatly appreciated.

I teach Python classes using IDLE.  The search dialog is a real a problem for new students and me as the teacher.  My students and I often get into a scenario where the search dialog gets hidden behind a editing window.  When that happens, then you try to make edits in code and nothing happens.  This happens to very often.  I have learned to look for the hidden search dialog window, but my students get very flustered.

I think that a search bar would be a great improvement.  If you can model it similar to the one in PyCharm, that would be wonderful.

Thanks for looking into this issue.

Irv


> On Oct 13, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Tal Einat <taleinat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently been working on two new features, for which I'd like to discuss whether it would be wise to include in IDLE. Each has a working implementation in a PR to make it easy to give it a try.
> 
> 1. Replace the search and replace dialogs with a search bar
> https://bugs.python.org/issue34976 <https://bugs.python.org/issue34976>
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9855 <https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9855>
> 
> 2. Ability to run 3rd party code checkers
> https://bugs.python.org/issue21880 <https://bugs.python.org/issue21880>
> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9802 <https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9802>
> 
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> - Tal Einat
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