[Idle-dev] Wishlist: Make executables + startup option

[André Roberge]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 3:26 PM Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 12/31/2019 1:45 PM, Tal Einat wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 8:22 PM David <david.lindhe at gmail.com
> > <mailto:david.lindhe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> >     2. A startup option to open both Editor and Shell side by side, full
> >     extent.
>
> > I personally think it would be unlikely for this to be added, since it
> > appears to be a rather minor convenience, but at the same time depending
> > on the quirks of OS window managers, which tend to change over time and
> > cause lots of maintenance headaches.
>
> This is why I want to do this with two panes in one window, as with
> turtledemo.  Let tk handle alignment on the different systems.
>

Thonny (https://thonny.org/) is based on tkinter and has an Editor and
Shell above each other (instead of side by side) - and it seems to work
well accross multiple OSes..  Some of Thonny's code is based on IDLE.

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