[Idle-dev] Fwd: [Tutor] Help needed configuring IDLE

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/23/2019 4:14 PM, Nuno Ferreira wrote:

> When I write a script and save it, IDLE wants by default to save it in 
> ~/Documents (as listed by File > Path Browser). Is there a way to change 
> this default location to something different ?

AFAIK, the following are true. Every window that can be saved has a 
default save directory.  When you open an existing file, the default is 
the directory it came from.  When you save a file, it is the directory 
you save in.  When you open a new file, it is the default directory of 
existing active window.  So you set the initial default save location 
for a file by which window you use to open it.  I don't want to change 
and of the above.

The default save location for unsaved Shell windows, an windows opened 
from them, depends on the OS and how it is installed.  For me, on 
Windows, it is the directory containing the python?.exe or pythonw.exe 
running IDLE.  From the screenshot, you are working on macOS, and there 
the default default, ~/Documents, is better.  It has been proposed to 
match that on other systems.  Making this default default user 
configurable would be a further enhancement.

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Terry Jan Reedy