[Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.5 -> 3.6): Move idlelib/NEWS.txt entries for 2.x into a separate file -- NEWS2x.txt.
terry.reedy
python-checkins at python.org
Fri Sep 30 00:03:02 EDT 2016
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/454af5880b40
changeset: 104169:454af5880b40
branch: 3.6
parent: 104165:d1214c0dab49
parent: 104168:b5705456d9da
user: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
date: Fri Sep 30 00:02:28 2016 -0400
summary:
Move idlelib/NEWS.txt entries for 2.x into a separate file -- NEWS2x.txt.
Reformat a few early 3.x entries in HEWS.txt. Merge from 3.5.
files:
Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt | 686 +----------------------------
Lib/idlelib/NEWS2x.txt | 660 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 669 insertions(+), 677 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@
- Issue # 12510: Attempt to get certain tool tips no longer crashes IDLE.
Erroneous tool tips have been corrected. Default added for callables.
-- Issue10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when
+- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when
parent window is closed while dialog is open.
- Issue 14876: use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
@@ -419,23 +419,18 @@
- Issue #1028: Ctrl-space binding to show completions was causing IDLE to exit.
Tk < 8.5 was sending invalid Unicode null; replaced with valid null.
-- <Home> toggle failing on Tk 8.5, causing IDLE exits and strange selection
- behavior. Issue 4676. Improve selection extension behaviour.
+- Issue #4676: <Home> toggle failing on Tk 8.5, causing IDLE exits and strange selection
+ behavior. Improve selection extension behaviour.
-- <Home> toggle non-functional when NumLock set on Windows. Issue 3851.
+- Issue #3851: <Home> toggle non-functional when NumLock set on Windows.
What's New in IDLE 3.1b1?
=========================
*Release date: 06-May-09*
-- Use of 'filter' in keybindingDialog.py was causing custom key assignment to
- fail. Patch 5707 amaury.forgeotdarc.
-
-
-What's New in IDLE 3.1a1?
-=========================
-*Release date: 07-Mar-09*
+- Issue #5707: Use of 'filter' in keybindingDialog.py was causing custom key assignment to
+ fail. Patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
- Issue #4815: Offer conversion to UTF-8 if source files have
no encoding declaration and are not encoded in UTF-8.
@@ -450,669 +445,6 @@
- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version
would not start if a custom theme was defined.
-
-What's New in IDLE 2.7? (UNRELEASED, but merged into 3.1 releases above.)
-=======================
-*Release date: XX-XXX-2010*
-
-- idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental
- versions of IDLE which are not installed in the standard location.
-
-- OutputWindow/PyShell right click menu "Go to file/line" wasn't working with
- file paths containing spaces. Bug 5559.
-
-- Windows: Version string for the .chm help file changed, file not being
- accessed Patch 5783 Guilherme Polo
-
-- Allow multiple IDLE GUI/subprocess pairs to exist simultaneously. Thanks to
- David Scherer for suggesting the use of an ephemeral port for the GUI.
- Patch 1529142 Weeble.
-
-- Remove port spec from run.py and fix bug where subprocess fails to
- extract port from command line when warnings are present.
-
-- Tk 8.5 Text widget requires 'wordprocessor' tabstyle attr to handle
- mixed space/tab properly. Issue 5129, patch by Guilherme Polo.
-
-- Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present
-
-
-What's New in IDLE 3.0?
-=======================
-*Release date: 03-Dec-2008*
-
-- IDLE would print a "Unhandled server exception!" message when internal
- debugging is enabled.
-
-- Issue #4455: IDLE failed to display the windows list when two windows have
- the same title.
-
-- Issue #4383: When IDLE cannot make the connection to its subprocess, it would
- fail to properly display the error message.
-
-- help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650.
-
-- CodeContext was not importing.
-
-- Corrected two 3.0 compatibility errors reported by Mark Summerfield:
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-December/011491.html
-
-- Shell was not colorizing due to bug introduced at r57998, Bug 1586.
-
-- Issue #1585: IDLE uses non-existent xrange() function.
-
-- Windows EOL sequence not converted correctly, encoding error.
- Caused file save to fail. Bug 1130.
-
-- IDLE converted to Python 3000 syntax.
-
-- Strings became Unicode.
-
-- CallTips module now uses the inspect module to produce the argspec.
-
-- IDLE modules now use absolute import instead of implied relative import.
-
-- atexit call replaces sys.exitfunc. The functionality of delete-exitfunc flag
- in config-main.cfg remains unchanged: if set, registered exit functions will
- be cleared before IDLE exits.
-
-
-What's New in IDLE 2.6
-======================
-*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*, merged into 3.0 releases detailed above (3.0rc2)
-
-- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version
- would not start if a custom theme was defined.
-
-- Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white
- space. issue1196903, patch by Jeff Shute.
-
-- Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic. issue2062, patch by Tal Einat.
-
-- Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the
- '/' char on Windows. issue2061 Patch by Tal Einat.
-
-- Configured selection highlighting colors were ignored; updating highlighting
- in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they
- were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator. Patch 1334. Tal Einat.
-
-- ScriptBinding event handlers weren't returning 'break'. Patch 2050, Tal Einat
-
-- There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647.
-
-- Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows.
- Issue 1743, Issue 1862.
-
-- Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding. Patch 1457 Tal Einat.
-
-- tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows
- of tabs. Patch 1612746 Tal Einat.
-
-- Add confirmation dialog before printing. Patch 1717170 Tal Einat.
-
-- Show paste position if > 80 col. Patch 1659326 Tal Einat.
-
-- Update cursor color without restarting. Patch 1725576 Tal Einat.
-
-- Allow keyboard interrupt only when user code is executing in subprocess.
- Patch 1225 Tal Einat (reworked from IDLE-Spoon).
-
-- configDialog cleanup. Patch 1730217 Tal Einat.
-
-- textView cleanup. Patch 1718043 Tal Einat.
-
-- Clean up EditorWindow close.
-
-- Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X. Backport of r56204.
-
-- OSX: Avoid crash for those versions of Tcl/Tk which don't have a console
-
-- Bug in idlelib.MultiCall: Options dialog was crashing IDLE if there was an
- option in config-extensions w/o a value. Patch #1672481, Tal Einat
-
-- Corrected some bugs in AutoComplete. Also, Page Up/Down in ACW implemented;
- mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts
- current selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll
- wheel now works in ACW. Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help.
-
-- AutoCompleteWindow moved below input line, will move above if there
- isn't enough space. Patch 1621265 Tal Einat
-
-- Calltips now 'handle' tuples in the argument list (display '<tuple>' :)
- Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968.
-
-- Add 'raw' support to configHandler. Patch 1650174 Tal Einat.
-
-- Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112.
-
-- Patch #1362975: Rework CodeContext indentation algorithm to
- avoid hard-coding pixel widths.
-
-- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
- is started with that option.
-
-- Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092)
-
-- Some syntax errors were being caught by tokenize during the tabnanny
- check, resulting in obscure error messages. Do the syntax check
- first. Bug 1562716, 1562719
-
-- IDLE's version number takes a big jump to match the version number of
- the Python release of which it's a part.
-
-
-What's New in IDLE 1.2?
-=======================
-*Release date: 19-SEP-2006*
-
-- File menu hotkeys: there were three 'p' assignments. Reassign the
- 'Save Copy As' and 'Print' hotkeys to 'y' and 't'. Change the
- Shell hotkey from 's' to 'l'.
-
-- IDLE honors new quit() and exit() commands from site.py Quitter() object.
- Patch 1540892, Jim Jewett
-
-- The 'with' statement is now a Code Context block opener.
- Patch 1540851, Jim Jewett
-
-- Retrieval of previous shell command was not always preserving indentation
- (since 1.2a1) Patch 1528468 Tal Einat.
-
-- Changing tokenize (39046) to detect dedent broke tabnanny check (since 1.2a1)
-
-- ToggleTab dialog was setting indent to 8 even if cancelled (since 1.2a1).
-
-- When used w/o subprocess, all exceptions were preceded by an error
- message claiming they were IDLE internal errors (since 1.2a1).
-
-- Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips.
-
-- Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly
-
-- Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a
- path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X
-
-- EditorWindow.test() was failing. Bug 1417598
-
-- EditorWindow failed when used stand-alone if sys.ps1 not set.
- Bug 1010370 Dave Florek
-
-- Tooltips failed on new-syle class __init__ args. Bug 1027566 Loren Guthrie
-
-- Avoid occasional failure to detect closing paren properly.
- Patch 1407280 Tal Einat
-
-- Rebinding Tab key was inserting 'tab' instead of 'Tab'. Bug 1179168.
-
-- Colorizer now handles #<builtin> correctly, also unicode strings and
- 'as' keyword in comment directly following import command. Closes 1325071.
- Patch 1479219 Tal Einat
-
-- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
-
-- Source file f.flush() after writing; trying to avoid lossage if user
- kills GUI.
-
-- Options / Keys / Advanced dialog made functional. Also, allow binding
- of 'movement' keys.
-
-- 'syntax' patch adds improved calltips and a new class attribute listbox.
- MultiCall module allows binding multiple actions to an event.
- Patch 906702 Noam Raphael
-
-- Better indentation after first line of string continuation.
- IDLEfork Patch 681992, Noam Raphael
-
-- Fixed CodeContext alignment problem, following suggestion from Tal Einat.
-
-- Increased performance in CodeContext extension Patch 936169 Noam Raphael
-
-- Mac line endings were incorrect when pasting code from some browsers
- when using X11 and the Fink distribution. Python Bug 1263656.
-
-- <Enter> when cursor is on a previous command retrieves that command. Instead
- of replacing the input line, the previous command is now appended to the
- input line. Indentation is preserved, and undo is enabled.
- Patch 1196917 Jeff Shute
-
-- Clarify "tab/space" Error Dialog and "Tab Width" Dialog associated with
- the Untabify command.
-
-- Corrected "tab/space" Error Dialog to show correct menu for Untabify.
- Patch 1196980 Jeff Shute
-
-- New files are colorized by default, and colorizing is removed when
- saving as non-Python files. Patch 1196895 Jeff Shute
- Closes Python Bugs 775012 and 800432, partial fix IDLEfork 763524
-
-- Improve subprocess link error notification.
-
-- run.py: use Queue's blocking feature instead of sleeping in the main
- loop. Patch # 1190163 Michiel de Hoon
-
-- Add config-main option to make the 'history' feature non-cyclic.
- Default remains cyclic. Python Patch 914546 Noam Raphael.
-
-- Removed ability to configure tabs indent from Options dialog. This 'feature'
- has never worked and no one has complained. It is still possible to set a
- default tabs (v. spaces) indent 'manually' via config-main.def (or to turn on
- tabs for the current EditorWindow via the Format menu) but IDLE will
- encourage indentation via spaces.
-
-- Enable setting the indentation width using the Options dialog.
- Bug # 783877
-
-- Add keybindings for del-word-left and del-word-right.
-
-- Discourage using an indent width other than 8 when using tabs to indent
- Python code.
-
-- Restore use of EditorWindow.set_indentation_params(), was dead code since
- Autoindent was merged into EditorWindow. This allows IDLE to conform to the
- indentation width of a loaded file. (But it still will not switch to tabs
- even if the file uses tabs.) Any change in indent width is local to that
- window.
-
-- Add Tabnanny check before Run/F5, not just when Checking module.
-
-- If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of
- erroring out.
-
-- Improve error handling when .idlerc can't be created (warn and exit).
-
-- The GUI was hanging if the shell window was closed while a raw_input()
- was pending. Restored the quit() of the readline() mainloop().
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2004-December/002307.html
-
-- The remote procedure call module rpc.py can now access data attributes of
- remote registered objects. Changes to these attributes are local, however.
-
-
-What's New in IDLE 1.1?
-=======================
-*Release date: 30-NOV-2004*
-
-- On OpenBSD, terminating IDLE with ctrl-c from the command line caused a
- stuck subprocess MainThread because only the SocketThread was exiting.
-
-- Saving a Keyset w/o making changes (by using the "Save as New Custom Key Set"
- button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in
- config-keys.cfg). Also true for Theme/highlights. Python Bug 1064535.
-
-- A change to the linecache.py API caused IDLE to exit when an exception was
- raised while running without the subprocess (-n switch). Python Bug 1063840.
-
-- When paragraph reformat width was made configurable, a bug was
- introduced that caused reformatting of comment blocks to ignore how
- far the block was indented, effectively adding the indentation width
- to the reformat width. This has been repaired, and the reformat
- width is again a bound on the total width of reformatted lines.
-
-- Improve keyboard focus binding, especially in Windows menu. Improve
- window raising, especially in the Windows menu and in the debugger.
- IDLEfork 763524.
-
-- If user passes a non-existent filename on the commandline, just
- open a new file, don't raise a dialog. IDLEfork 854928.
-
-- EditorWindow.py was not finding the .chm help file on Windows. Typo
- at Rev 1.54. Python Bug 990954
-
-- checking sys.platform for substring 'win' was breaking IDLE docs on Mac
- (darwin). Also, Mac Safari browser requires full file:// URIs. SF 900580.
-
-- Redirect the warning stream to the shell during the ScriptBinding check of
- user code and format the warning similarly to an exception for both that
- check and for runtime warnings raised in the subprocess.
-
-- CodeContext hint pane visibility state is now persistent across sessions.
- The pane no longer appears in the shell window. Added capability to limit
- extensions to shell window or editor windows. Noam Raphael addition
- to Patch 936169.
-
-- Paragraph reformat width is now a configurable parameter in the
- Options GUI.
-
-- New Extension: CodeContext. Provides block structuring hints for code
- which has scrolled above an edit window. Patch 936169 Noam Raphael.
-
-- If nulls somehow got into the strings in recent-files.lst
- EditorWindow.update_recent_files_list() was failing. Python Bug 931336.
-
-- If the normal background is changed via Configure/Highlighting, it will
- update immediately, thanks to the previously mentioned patch by Nigel Rowe.
-
-- Add a highlight theme for builtin keywords. Python Patch 805830 Nigel Rowe
- This also fixed IDLEfork bug [ 693418 ] Normal text background color not
- refreshed and Python bug [897872 ] Unknown color name on HP-UX
-
-- rpc.py:SocketIO - Large modules were generating large pickles when downloaded
- to the execution server. The return of the OK response from the subprocess
- initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not
- ready. Add an IO ready test to fix this. Moved the polling IO ready test
- into pollpacket().
-
-- Fix typo in rpc.py, s/b "pickle.PicklingError" not "pickle.UnpicklingError".
-
-- Added a Tk error dialog to run.py inform the user if the subprocess can't
- connect to the user GUI process. Added a timeout to the GUI's listening
- socket. Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind
- the port or connect to the subprocess. Clean up error handling during
- connection initiation phase. This is an update of Python Patch 778323.
-
-- Print correct exception even if source file changed since shell was
- restarted. IDLEfork Patch 869012 Noam Raphael
-
-- Keybindings with the Shift modifier now work correctly. So do bindings which
- use the Space key. Limit unmodified user keybindings to the function keys.
- Python Bug 775353, IDLEfork Bugs 755647, 761557
-
-- After an exception, run.py was not setting the exception vector. Noam
- Raphael suggested correcting this so pdb's postmortem pm() would work.
- IDLEfork Patch 844675
-
-- IDLE now does not fail to save the file anymore if the Tk buffer is not a
- Unicode string, yet eol_convention is. Python Bugs 774680, 788378
-
-- IDLE didn't start correctly when Python was installed in "Program Files" on
- W2K and XP. Python Bugs 780451, 784183
-
-- config-main.def documentation incorrectly referred to idle- instead of
- config- filenames. SF 782759 Also added note about .idlerc location.
-
-
-What's New in IDLE 1.0?
-=======================
-*Release date: 29-Jul-2003*
-
-- Added a banner to the shell discussing warnings possibly raised by personal
- firewall software. Added same comment to README.txt.
-
-- Calltip error when docstring was None Python Bug 775541
-
-- Updated extend.txt, help.txt, and config-extensions.def to correctly
- reflect the current status of the configuration system. Python Bug 768469
-
-- Fixed: Call Tip Trimming May Loop Forever. Python Patch 769142 (Daniels)
-
-- Replaced apply(f, args, kwds) with f(*args, **kwargs) to improve performance
- Python Patch 768187
-
-- Break or continue statements outside a loop were causing IDLE crash
- Python Bug 767794
-
-- Convert Unicode strings from readline to IOBinding.encoding. Also set
- sys.std{in|out|err}.encoding, for both the local and the subprocess case.
- SF IDLEfork patch 682347.
-
-- Extend AboutDialog.ViewFile() to support file encodings. Make the CREDITS
- file Latin-1.
-
-- Updated the About dialog to reflect re-integration into Python. Provide
- buttons to display Python's NEWS, License, and Credits, plus additional
- buttons for IDLE's README and NEWS.
-
-- TextViewer() now has a third parameter which allows inserting text into the
- viewer instead of reading from a file.
-
-- (Created the .../Lib/idlelib directory in the Python CVS, which is a clone of
- IDLEfork modified to install in the Python environment. The code in the
- interrupt module has been moved to thread.interrupt_main(). )
-
-- Printing the Shell window was failing if it was not saved first SF 748975
-
-- When using the Search in Files dialog, if the user had a selection
- highlighted in his Editor window, insert it into the dialog search field.
-
-- The Python Shell entry was disappearing from the Windows menu.
-
-- Update the Windows file list when a file name change occurs
-
-- Change to File / Open Module: always pop up the dialog, using the current
- selection as the default value. This is easier to use habitually.
-
-- Avoided a problem with starting the subprocess when 'localhost' doesn't
- resolve to the user's loopback interface. SF 747772
-
-- Fixed an issue with highlighted errors never de-colorizing. SF 747677. Also
- improved notification of Tabnanny Token Error.
-
-- File / New will by default save in the directory of the Edit window from
- which it was initiated. SF 748973 Guido van Rossum patch.
-
-
-What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1?
-=============================
-*Release date: 02-Jun-2003*
-
-- The current working directory of the execution environment (and shell
- following completion of execution) is now that of the module being run.
-
-- Added the delete-exitfunc option to config-main.def. (This option is not
- included in the Options dialog.) Setting this to True (the default) will
- cause IDLE to not run sys.exitfunc/atexit when the subprocess exits.
-
-- IDLE now preserves the line ending codes when editing a file produced on
- a different platform. SF 661759, SF 538584
-
-- Reduced default editor font size to 10 point and increased window height
- to provide a better initial impression on Windows.
-
-- Options / Fonts/Tabs / Set Base Editor Font: List box was not highlighting
- the default font when first installed on Windows. SF 661676
-
-- Added Autosave feature: when user runs code from edit window, if the file
- has been modified IDLE will silently save it if Autosave is enabled. The
- option is set in the Options dialog, and the default is to prompt the
- user to save the file. SF 661318 Bruce Sherwood patch.
-
-- Improved the RESTART annotation in the shell window when the user restarts
- the shell while it is generating output. Also improved annotation when user
- repeatedly hammers the Ctrl-F6 restart.
-
-- Allow IDLE to run when not installed and cwd is not the IDLE directory
- SF Patch 686254 "Run IDLEfork from any directory without set-up" - Raphael
-
-- When a module is run from an EditorWindow: if its directory is not in
- sys.path, prepend it. This allows the module to import other modules in
- the same directory. Do the same for a script run from the command line.
-
-- Correctly restart the subprocess if it is running user code and the user
- attempts to run some other module or restarts the shell. Do the same if
- the link is broken and it is possible to restart the subprocess and re-
- connect to the GUI. SF RFE 661321.
-
-- Improved exception reporting when running commands or scripts from the
- command line.
-
-- Added a -n command line switch to start IDLE without the subprocess.
- Removed the Shell menu when running in that mode. Updated help messages.
-
-- Added a comment to the shell startup header to indicate when IDLE is not
- using the subprocess.
-
-- Restore the ability to run without the subprocess. This can be important for
- some platforms or configurations. (Running without the subprocess allows the
- debugger to trace through parts of IDLE itself, which may or may not be
- desirable, depending on your point of view. In addition, the traditional
- reload/import tricks must be use if user source code is changed.) This is
- helpful for developing IDLE using IDLE, because one instance can be used to
- edit the code and a separate instance run to test changes. (Multiple
- concurrent IDLE instances with subprocesses is a future feature)
-
-- Improve the error message a user gets when saving a file with non-ASCII
- characters and no source encoding is specified. Done by adding a dialog
- 'EncodingMessage', which contains the line to add in a fixed-font entry
- widget, and which has a button to add that line to the file automatically.
- Also, add a configuration option 'EditorWindow/encoding', which has three
- possible values: none, utf-8, and locale. None is the default: IDLE will show
- this dialog when non-ASCII characters are encountered. utf-8 means that files
- with non-ASCII characters are saved as utf-8-with-bom. locale means that
- files are saved in the locale's encoding; the dialog is only displayed if the
- source contains characters outside the locale's charset. SF 710733 - Loewis
-
-- Improved I/O response by tweaking the wait parameter in various
- calls to signal.signal().
-
-- Implemented a threaded subprocess which allows interrupting a pass
- loop in user code using the 'interrupt' extension. User code runs
- in MainThread, while the RPCServer is handled by SockThread. This is
- necessary because Windows doesn't support signals.
-
-- Implemented the 'interrupt' extension module, which allows a subthread
- to raise a KeyboardInterrupt in the main thread.
-
-- Attempting to save the shell raised an error related to saving
- breakpoints, which are not implemented in the shell
-
-- Provide a correct message when 'exit' or 'quit' are entered at the
- IDLE command prompt SF 695861
-
-- Eliminate extra blank line in shell output caused by not flushing
- stdout when user code ends with an unterminated print. SF 695861
-
-- Moved responsibility for exception formatting (i.e. pruning IDLE internal
- calls) out of rpc.py into the client and server.
-
-- Exit IDLE cleanly even when doing subprocess I/O
-
-- Handle subprocess interrupt with an RPC message.
-
-- Restart the subprocess if it terminates itself. (VPython programs do that)
-
-- Support subclassing of exceptions, including in the shell, by moving the
- exception formatting to the subprocess.
-
-
-What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2?
-===================================
-*Release date: 27-Jan-2003*
-
-- Updated INSTALL.txt to claify use of the python2 rpm.
-
-- Improved formatting in IDLE Help.
-
-- Run menu: Replace "Run Script" with "Run Module".
-
-- Code encountering an unhandled exception under the debugger now shows
- the correct traceback, with IDLE internal levels pruned out.
-
-- If an exception occurs entirely in IDLE, don't prune the IDLE internal
- modules from the traceback displayed.
-
-- Class Browser and Path Browser now use Alt-Key-2 for vertical zoom.
-
-- IDLE icons will now install correctly even when setup.py is run from the
- build directory
-
-- Class Browser now compatible with Python2.3 version of pyclbr.py
-
-- Left cursor move in presence of selected text now moves from left end
- of the selection.
-
-- Add Meta keybindings to "IDLE Classic Windows" to handle reversed
- Alt/Meta on some Linux distros.
-
-- Change default: IDLE now starts with Python Shell.
-
-- Removed the File Path from the Additional Help Sources scrolled list.
-
-- Add capability to access Additional Help Sources on the web if the
- Help File Path begins with //http or www. (Otherwise local path is
- validated, as before.)
-
-- Additional Help Sources were not being posted on the Help menu in the
- order entered. Implement sorting the list by [HelpFiles] 'option'
- number.
-
-- Add Browse button to New Help Source dialog. Arrange to start in
- Python/Doc if platform is Windows, otherwise start in current directory.
-
-- Put the Additional Help Sources directly on the Help menu instead of in
- an Extra Help cascade menu. Rearrange the Help menu so the Additional
- Help Sources come last. Update help.txt appropriately.
-
-- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configSectionNameDialog.py and configDialog.py
-
-- Uniform capitalization in General tab of ConfigDialog, update the doc string.
-
-- Fix bug in ConfigDialog where SaveAllChangedConfig() was unexpectedly
- deleting Additional Help Sources from the user's config file.
-
-- Make configHelpSourceEdit OK button the default and bind <Return>
-
-- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configHelpSourceEdit: error dialogs not attached
- to parents.
-
-- Use os.startfile() to open both Additional Help and Python Help on the
- Windows platform. The application associated with the file type will act as
- the viewer. Windows help files (.chm) are now supported via the
- Settings/General/Additional Help facility.
-
-- If Python Help files are installed locally on Linux, use them instead of
- accessing python.org.
-
-- Make the methods for finding the Python help docs more robust, and make
- them work in the installed configuration, also.
-
-- On the Save Before Run dialog, make the OK button the default. One
- less mouse action!
-
-- Add a method: EditorWindow.get_geometry() for future use in implementing
- window location persistence.
-
-- Removed the "Help/Advice" menu entry. Thanks, David! We'll remember!
-
-- Change the "Classic Windows" theme's paste key to be <ctrl-v>.
-
-- Rearrange the Shell menu to put Stack Viewer entries adjacent.
-
-- Add the ability to restart the subprocess interpreter from the shell window;
- add an associated menu entry "Shell/Restart" with binding Control-F6. Update
- IDLE help.
-
-- Upon a restart, annotate the shell window with a "restart boundary". Add a
- shell window menu "Shell/View Restart" with binding F6 to jump to the most
- recent restart boundary.
-
-- Add Shell menu to Python Shell; change "Settings" to "Options".
-
-- Remove incorrect comment in setup.py: IDLEfork is now installed as a package.
-
-- Add INSTALL.txt, HISTORY.txt, NEWS.txt to installed configuration.
-
-- In installer text, fix reference to Visual Python, should be VPython.
- Properly credit David Scherer.
-
-- Modified idle, idle.py, idle.pyw to improve exception handling.
-
-
-What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 1?
-===================================
-*Release date: 31-Dec-2002*
-
-- First release of major new functionality. For further details refer to
- Idle-dev and/or the Sourceforge CVS.
-
-- Adapted to the Mac platform.
-
-- Overhauled the IDLE startup options and revised the idle -h help message,
- which provides details of command line usage.
-
-- Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements.
-
-- Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The output
- of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to inspect the
- environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1 the shell
- environment was separate from the environment of the user code.)
-
-- Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog.
-
-- Removed David Scherer's Remote Procedure Call code and replaced with Guido
- van Rossum's. GvR code has support for the IDLE debugger and uses the shell
- to inspect the environment of code Run from an Edit window. Files removed:
- ExecBinding.py, loader.py, protocol.py, Remote.py, spawn.py
-
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-Refer to HISTORY.txt for additional information on earlier releases.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Refer to NEWS2x.txt and HISTORY.txt for information on earlier releases.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS2x.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS2x.txt
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS2x.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,660 @@
+What's New in IDLE 2.7? (Merged into 3.1 before 2.7 release.)
+=======================
+*Release date: XX-XXX-2010*
+
+- idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental
+ versions of IDLE which are not installed in the standard location.
+
+- OutputWindow/PyShell right click menu "Go to file/line" wasn't working with
+ file paths containing spaces. Bug 5559.
+
+- Windows: Version string for the .chm help file changed, file not being
+ accessed Patch 5783 Guilherme Polo
+
+- Allow multiple IDLE GUI/subprocess pairs to exist simultaneously. Thanks to
+ David Scherer for suggesting the use of an ephemeral port for the GUI.
+ Patch 1529142 Weeble.
+
+- Remove port spec from run.py and fix bug where subprocess fails to
+ extract port from command line when warnings are present.
+
+- Tk 8.5 Text widget requires 'wordprocessor' tabstyle attr to handle
+ mixed space/tab properly. Issue 5129, patch by Guilherme Polo.
+
+- Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present
+
+- IDLE would print a "Unhandled server exception!" message when internal
+ debugging is enabled.
+
+- Issue #4455: IDLE failed to display the windows list when two windows have
+ the same title.
+
+- Issue #4383: When IDLE cannot make the connection to its subprocess, it would
+ fail to properly display the error message.
+
+- help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650.
+
+- CodeContext was not importing.
+
+- Corrected two 3.0 compatibility errors reported by Mark Summerfield:
+ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-December/011491.html
+
+- Shell was not colorizing due to bug introduced at r57998, Bug 1586.
+
+- Issue #1585: IDLE uses non-existent xrange() function.
+
+- Windows EOL sequence not converted correctly, encoding error.
+ Caused file save to fail. Bug 1130.
+
+- IDLE converted to Python 3000 syntax.
+
+- Strings became Unicode.
+
+- CallTips module now uses the inspect module to produce the argspec.
+
+- IDLE modules now use absolute import instead of implied relative import.
+
+- atexit call replaces sys.exitfunc. The functionality of delete-exitfunc flag
+ in config-main.cfg remains unchanged: if set, registered exit functions will
+ be cleared before IDLE exits.
+
+
+What's New in IDLE 2.6
+======================
+*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*, merged into 3.0 releases detailed above (3.0rc2)
+
+- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version
+ would not start if a custom theme was defined.
+
+- Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white
+ space. issue1196903, patch by Jeff Shute.
+
+- Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic. issue2062, patch by Tal Einat.
+
+- Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the
+ '/' char on Windows. issue2061 Patch by Tal Einat.
+
+- Configured selection highlighting colors were ignored; updating highlighting
+ in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they
+ were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator. Patch 1334. Tal Einat.
+
+- ScriptBinding event handlers weren't returning 'break'. Patch 2050, Tal Einat
+
+- There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647.
+
+- Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows.
+ Issue 1743, Issue 1862.
+
+- Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding. Patch 1457 Tal Einat.
+
+- tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows
+ of tabs. Patch 1612746 Tal Einat.
+
+- Add confirmation dialog before printing. Patch 1717170 Tal Einat.
+
+- Show paste position if > 80 col. Patch 1659326 Tal Einat.
+
+- Update cursor color without restarting. Patch 1725576 Tal Einat.
+
+- Allow keyboard interrupt only when user code is executing in subprocess.
+ Patch 1225 Tal Einat (reworked from IDLE-Spoon).
+
+- configDialog cleanup. Patch 1730217 Tal Einat.
+
+- textView cleanup. Patch 1718043 Tal Einat.
+
+- Clean up EditorWindow close.
+
+- Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X. Backport of r56204.
+
+- OSX: Avoid crash for those versions of Tcl/Tk which don't have a console
+
+- Bug in idlelib.MultiCall: Options dialog was crashing IDLE if there was an
+ option in config-extensions w/o a value. Patch #1672481, Tal Einat
+
+- Corrected some bugs in AutoComplete. Also, Page Up/Down in ACW implemented;
+ mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts
+ current selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll
+ wheel now works in ACW. Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help.
+
+- AutoCompleteWindow moved below input line, will move above if there
+ isn't enough space. Patch 1621265 Tal Einat
+
+- Calltips now 'handle' tuples in the argument list (display '<tuple>' :)
+ Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968.
+
+- Add 'raw' support to configHandler. Patch 1650174 Tal Einat.
+
+- Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112.
+
+- Patch #1362975: Rework CodeContext indentation algorithm to
+ avoid hard-coding pixel widths.
+
+- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
+ is started with that option.
+
+- Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092)
+
+- Some syntax errors were being caught by tokenize during the tabnanny
+ check, resulting in obscure error messages. Do the syntax check
+ first. Bug 1562716, 1562719
+
+- IDLE's version number takes a big jump to match the version number of
+ the Python release of which it's a part.
+
+
+What's New in IDLE 1.2?
+=======================
+*Release date: 19-SEP-2006*
+
+- File menu hotkeys: there were three 'p' assignments. Reassign the
+ 'Save Copy As' and 'Print' hotkeys to 'y' and 't'. Change the
+ Shell hotkey from 's' to 'l'.
+
+- IDLE honors new quit() and exit() commands from site.py Quitter() object.
+ Patch 1540892, Jim Jewett
+
+- The 'with' statement is now a Code Context block opener.
+ Patch 1540851, Jim Jewett
+
+- Retrieval of previous shell command was not always preserving indentation
+ (since 1.2a1) Patch 1528468 Tal Einat.
+
+- Changing tokenize (39046) to detect dedent broke tabnanny check (since 1.2a1)
+
+- ToggleTab dialog was setting indent to 8 even if cancelled (since 1.2a1).
+
+- When used w/o subprocess, all exceptions were preceded by an error
+ message claiming they were IDLE internal errors (since 1.2a1).
+
+- Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips.
+
+- Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly
+
+- Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a
+ path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X
+
+- EditorWindow.test() was failing. Bug 1417598
+
+- EditorWindow failed when used stand-alone if sys.ps1 not set.
+ Bug 1010370 Dave Florek
+
+- Tooltips failed on new-syle class __init__ args. Bug 1027566 Loren Guthrie
+
+- Avoid occasional failure to detect closing paren properly.
+ Patch 1407280 Tal Einat
+
+- Rebinding Tab key was inserting 'tab' instead of 'Tab'. Bug 1179168.
+
+- Colorizer now handles #<builtin> correctly, also unicode strings and
+ 'as' keyword in comment directly following import command. Closes 1325071.
+ Patch 1479219 Tal Einat
+
+- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
+
+- Source file f.flush() after writing; trying to avoid lossage if user
+ kills GUI.
+
+- Options / Keys / Advanced dialog made functional. Also, allow binding
+ of 'movement' keys.
+
+- 'syntax' patch adds improved calltips and a new class attribute listbox.
+ MultiCall module allows binding multiple actions to an event.
+ Patch 906702 Noam Raphael
+
+- Better indentation after first line of string continuation.
+ IDLEfork Patch 681992, Noam Raphael
+
+- Fixed CodeContext alignment problem, following suggestion from Tal Einat.
+
+- Increased performance in CodeContext extension Patch 936169 Noam Raphael
+
+- Mac line endings were incorrect when pasting code from some browsers
+ when using X11 and the Fink distribution. Python Bug 1263656.
+
+- <Enter> when cursor is on a previous command retrieves that command. Instead
+ of replacing the input line, the previous command is now appended to the
+ input line. Indentation is preserved, and undo is enabled.
+ Patch 1196917 Jeff Shute
+
+- Clarify "tab/space" Error Dialog and "Tab Width" Dialog associated with
+ the Untabify command.
+
+- Corrected "tab/space" Error Dialog to show correct menu for Untabify.
+ Patch 1196980 Jeff Shute
+
+- New files are colorized by default, and colorizing is removed when
+ saving as non-Python files. Patch 1196895 Jeff Shute
+ Closes Python Bugs 775012 and 800432, partial fix IDLEfork 763524
+
+- Improve subprocess link error notification.
+
+- run.py: use Queue's blocking feature instead of sleeping in the main
+ loop. Patch # 1190163 Michiel de Hoon
+
+- Add config-main option to make the 'history' feature non-cyclic.
+ Default remains cyclic. Python Patch 914546 Noam Raphael.
+
+- Removed ability to configure tabs indent from Options dialog. This 'feature'
+ has never worked and no one has complained. It is still possible to set a
+ default tabs (v. spaces) indent 'manually' via config-main.def (or to turn on
+ tabs for the current EditorWindow via the Format menu) but IDLE will
+ encourage indentation via spaces.
+
+- Enable setting the indentation width using the Options dialog.
+ Bug # 783877
+
+- Add keybindings for del-word-left and del-word-right.
+
+- Discourage using an indent width other than 8 when using tabs to indent
+ Python code.
+
+- Restore use of EditorWindow.set_indentation_params(), was dead code since
+ Autoindent was merged into EditorWindow. This allows IDLE to conform to the
+ indentation width of a loaded file. (But it still will not switch to tabs
+ even if the file uses tabs.) Any change in indent width is local to that
+ window.
+
+- Add Tabnanny check before Run/F5, not just when Checking module.
+
+- If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of
+ erroring out.
+
+- Improve error handling when .idlerc can't be created (warn and exit).
+
+- The GUI was hanging if the shell window was closed while a raw_input()
+ was pending. Restored the quit() of the readline() mainloop().
+ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2004-December/002307.html
+
+- The remote procedure call module rpc.py can now access data attributes of
+ remote registered objects. Changes to these attributes are local, however.
+
+
+What's New in IDLE 1.1?
+=======================
+*Release date: 30-NOV-2004*
+
+- On OpenBSD, terminating IDLE with ctrl-c from the command line caused a
+ stuck subprocess MainThread because only the SocketThread was exiting.
+
+- Saving a Keyset w/o making changes (by using the "Save as New Custom Key Set"
+ button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in
+ config-keys.cfg). Also true for Theme/highlights. Python Bug 1064535.
+
+- A change to the linecache.py API caused IDLE to exit when an exception was
+ raised while running without the subprocess (-n switch). Python Bug 1063840.
+
+- When paragraph reformat width was made configurable, a bug was
+ introduced that caused reformatting of comment blocks to ignore how
+ far the block was indented, effectively adding the indentation width
+ to the reformat width. This has been repaired, and the reformat
+ width is again a bound on the total width of reformatted lines.
+
+- Improve keyboard focus binding, especially in Windows menu. Improve
+ window raising, especially in the Windows menu and in the debugger.
+ IDLEfork 763524.
+
+- If user passes a non-existent filename on the commandline, just
+ open a new file, don't raise a dialog. IDLEfork 854928.
+
+- EditorWindow.py was not finding the .chm help file on Windows. Typo
+ at Rev 1.54. Python Bug 990954
+
+- checking sys.platform for substring 'win' was breaking IDLE docs on Mac
+ (darwin). Also, Mac Safari browser requires full file:// URIs. SF 900580.
+
+- Redirect the warning stream to the shell during the ScriptBinding check of
+ user code and format the warning similarly to an exception for both that
+ check and for runtime warnings raised in the subprocess.
+
+- CodeContext hint pane visibility state is now persistent across sessions.
+ The pane no longer appears in the shell window. Added capability to limit
+ extensions to shell window or editor windows. Noam Raphael addition
+ to Patch 936169.
+
+- Paragraph reformat width is now a configurable parameter in the
+ Options GUI.
+
+- New Extension: CodeContext. Provides block structuring hints for code
+ which has scrolled above an edit window. Patch 936169 Noam Raphael.
+
+- If nulls somehow got into the strings in recent-files.lst
+ EditorWindow.update_recent_files_list() was failing. Python Bug 931336.
+
+- If the normal background is changed via Configure/Highlighting, it will
+ update immediately, thanks to the previously mentioned patch by Nigel Rowe.
+
+- Add a highlight theme for builtin keywords. Python Patch 805830 Nigel Rowe
+ This also fixed IDLEfork bug [ 693418 ] Normal text background color not
+ refreshed and Python bug [897872 ] Unknown color name on HP-UX
+
+- rpc.py:SocketIO - Large modules were generating large pickles when downloaded
+ to the execution server. The return of the OK response from the subprocess
+ initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not
+ ready. Add an IO ready test to fix this. Moved the polling IO ready test
+ into pollpacket().
+
+- Fix typo in rpc.py, s/b "pickle.PicklingError" not "pickle.UnpicklingError".
+
+- Added a Tk error dialog to run.py inform the user if the subprocess can't
+ connect to the user GUI process. Added a timeout to the GUI's listening
+ socket. Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind
+ the port or connect to the subprocess. Clean up error handling during
+ connection initiation phase. This is an update of Python Patch 778323.
+
+- Print correct exception even if source file changed since shell was
+ restarted. IDLEfork Patch 869012 Noam Raphael
+
+- Keybindings with the Shift modifier now work correctly. So do bindings which
+ use the Space key. Limit unmodified user keybindings to the function keys.
+ Python Bug 775353, IDLEfork Bugs 755647, 761557
+
+- After an exception, run.py was not setting the exception vector. Noam
+ Raphael suggested correcting this so pdb's postmortem pm() would work.
+ IDLEfork Patch 844675
+
+- IDLE now does not fail to save the file anymore if the Tk buffer is not a
+ Unicode string, yet eol_convention is. Python Bugs 774680, 788378
+
+- IDLE didn't start correctly when Python was installed in "Program Files" on
+ W2K and XP. Python Bugs 780451, 784183
+
+- config-main.def documentation incorrectly referred to idle- instead of
+ config- filenames. SF 782759 Also added note about .idlerc location.
+
+
+What's New in IDLE 1.0?
+=======================
+*Release date: 29-Jul-2003*
+
+- Added a banner to the shell discussing warnings possibly raised by personal
+ firewall software. Added same comment to README.txt.
+
+- Calltip error when docstring was None Python Bug 775541
+
+- Updated extend.txt, help.txt, and config-extensions.def to correctly
+ reflect the current status of the configuration system. Python Bug 768469
+
+- Fixed: Call Tip Trimming May Loop Forever. Python Patch 769142 (Daniels)
+
+- Replaced apply(f, args, kwds) with f(*args, **kwargs) to improve performance
+ Python Patch 768187
+
+- Break or continue statements outside a loop were causing IDLE crash
+ Python Bug 767794
+
+- Convert Unicode strings from readline to IOBinding.encoding. Also set
+ sys.std{in|out|err}.encoding, for both the local and the subprocess case.
+ SF IDLEfork patch 682347.
+
+- Extend AboutDialog.ViewFile() to support file encodings. Make the CREDITS
+ file Latin-1.
+
+- Updated the About dialog to reflect re-integration into Python. Provide
+ buttons to display Python's NEWS, License, and Credits, plus additional
+ buttons for IDLE's README and NEWS.
+
+- TextViewer() now has a third parameter which allows inserting text into the
+ viewer instead of reading from a file.
+
+- (Created the .../Lib/idlelib directory in the Python CVS, which is a clone of
+ IDLEfork modified to install in the Python environment. The code in the
+ interrupt module has been moved to thread.interrupt_main(). )
+
+- Printing the Shell window was failing if it was not saved first SF 748975
+
+- When using the Search in Files dialog, if the user had a selection
+ highlighted in his Editor window, insert it into the dialog search field.
+
+- The Python Shell entry was disappearing from the Windows menu.
+
+- Update the Windows file list when a file name change occurs
+
+- Change to File / Open Module: always pop up the dialog, using the current
+ selection as the default value. This is easier to use habitually.
+
+- Avoided a problem with starting the subprocess when 'localhost' doesn't
+ resolve to the user's loopback interface. SF 747772
+
+- Fixed an issue with highlighted errors never de-colorizing. SF 747677. Also
+ improved notification of Tabnanny Token Error.
+
+- File / New will by default save in the directory of the Edit window from
+ which it was initiated. SF 748973 Guido van Rossum patch.
+
+
+What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1?
+=============================
+*Release date: 02-Jun-2003*
+
+- The current working directory of the execution environment (and shell
+ following completion of execution) is now that of the module being run.
+
+- Added the delete-exitfunc option to config-main.def. (This option is not
+ included in the Options dialog.) Setting this to True (the default) will
+ cause IDLE to not run sys.exitfunc/atexit when the subprocess exits.
+
+- IDLE now preserves the line ending codes when editing a file produced on
+ a different platform. SF 661759, SF 538584
+
+- Reduced default editor font size to 10 point and increased window height
+ to provide a better initial impression on Windows.
+
+- Options / Fonts/Tabs / Set Base Editor Font: List box was not highlighting
+ the default font when first installed on Windows. SF 661676
+
+- Added Autosave feature: when user runs code from edit window, if the file
+ has been modified IDLE will silently save it if Autosave is enabled. The
+ option is set in the Options dialog, and the default is to prompt the
+ user to save the file. SF 661318 Bruce Sherwood patch.
+
+- Improved the RESTART annotation in the shell window when the user restarts
+ the shell while it is generating output. Also improved annotation when user
+ repeatedly hammers the Ctrl-F6 restart.
+
+- Allow IDLE to run when not installed and cwd is not the IDLE directory
+ SF Patch 686254 "Run IDLEfork from any directory without set-up" - Raphael
+
+- When a module is run from an EditorWindow: if its directory is not in
+ sys.path, prepend it. This allows the module to import other modules in
+ the same directory. Do the same for a script run from the command line.
+
+- Correctly restart the subprocess if it is running user code and the user
+ attempts to run some other module or restarts the shell. Do the same if
+ the link is broken and it is possible to restart the subprocess and re-
+ connect to the GUI. SF RFE 661321.
+
+- Improved exception reporting when running commands or scripts from the
+ command line.
+
+- Added a -n command line switch to start IDLE without the subprocess.
+ Removed the Shell menu when running in that mode. Updated help messages.
+
+- Added a comment to the shell startup header to indicate when IDLE is not
+ using the subprocess.
+
+- Restore the ability to run without the subprocess. This can be important for
+ some platforms or configurations. (Running without the subprocess allows the
+ debugger to trace through parts of IDLE itself, which may or may not be
+ desirable, depending on your point of view. In addition, the traditional
+ reload/import tricks must be use if user source code is changed.) This is
+ helpful for developing IDLE using IDLE, because one instance can be used to
+ edit the code and a separate instance run to test changes. (Multiple
+ concurrent IDLE instances with subprocesses is a future feature)
+
+- Improve the error message a user gets when saving a file with non-ASCII
+ characters and no source encoding is specified. Done by adding a dialog
+ 'EncodingMessage', which contains the line to add in a fixed-font entry
+ widget, and which has a button to add that line to the file automatically.
+ Also, add a configuration option 'EditorWindow/encoding', which has three
+ possible values: none, utf-8, and locale. None is the default: IDLE will show
+ this dialog when non-ASCII characters are encountered. utf-8 means that files
+ with non-ASCII characters are saved as utf-8-with-bom. locale means that
+ files are saved in the locale's encoding; the dialog is only displayed if the
+ source contains characters outside the locale's charset. SF 710733 - Loewis
+
+- Improved I/O response by tweaking the wait parameter in various
+ calls to signal.signal().
+
+- Implemented a threaded subprocess which allows interrupting a pass
+ loop in user code using the 'interrupt' extension. User code runs
+ in MainThread, while the RPCServer is handled by SockThread. This is
+ necessary because Windows doesn't support signals.
+
+- Implemented the 'interrupt' extension module, which allows a subthread
+ to raise a KeyboardInterrupt in the main thread.
+
+- Attempting to save the shell raised an error related to saving
+ breakpoints, which are not implemented in the shell
+
+- Provide a correct message when 'exit' or 'quit' are entered at the
+ IDLE command prompt SF 695861
+
+- Eliminate extra blank line in shell output caused by not flushing
+ stdout when user code ends with an unterminated print. SF 695861
+
+- Moved responsibility for exception formatting (i.e. pruning IDLE internal
+ calls) out of rpc.py into the client and server.
+
+- Exit IDLE cleanly even when doing subprocess I/O
+
+- Handle subprocess interrupt with an RPC message.
+
+- Restart the subprocess if it terminates itself. (VPython programs do that)
+
+- Support subclassing of exceptions, including in the shell, by moving the
+ exception formatting to the subprocess.
+
+
+What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2?
+===================================
+*Release date: 27-Jan-2003*
+
+- Updated INSTALL.txt to claify use of the python2 rpm.
+
+- Improved formatting in IDLE Help.
+
+- Run menu: Replace "Run Script" with "Run Module".
+
+- Code encountering an unhandled exception under the debugger now shows
+ the correct traceback, with IDLE internal levels pruned out.
+
+- If an exception occurs entirely in IDLE, don't prune the IDLE internal
+ modules from the traceback displayed.
+
+- Class Browser and Path Browser now use Alt-Key-2 for vertical zoom.
+
+- IDLE icons will now install correctly even when setup.py is run from the
+ build directory
+
+- Class Browser now compatible with Python2.3 version of pyclbr.py
+
+- Left cursor move in presence of selected text now moves from left end
+ of the selection.
+
+- Add Meta keybindings to "IDLE Classic Windows" to handle reversed
+ Alt/Meta on some Linux distros.
+
+- Change default: IDLE now starts with Python Shell.
+
+- Removed the File Path from the Additional Help Sources scrolled list.
+
+- Add capability to access Additional Help Sources on the web if the
+ Help File Path begins with //http or www. (Otherwise local path is
+ validated, as before.)
+
+- Additional Help Sources were not being posted on the Help menu in the
+ order entered. Implement sorting the list by [HelpFiles] 'option'
+ number.
+
+- Add Browse button to New Help Source dialog. Arrange to start in
+ Python/Doc if platform is Windows, otherwise start in current directory.
+
+- Put the Additional Help Sources directly on the Help menu instead of in
+ an Extra Help cascade menu. Rearrange the Help menu so the Additional
+ Help Sources come last. Update help.txt appropriately.
+
+- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configSectionNameDialog.py and configDialog.py
+
+- Uniform capitalization in General tab of ConfigDialog, update the doc string.
+
+- Fix bug in ConfigDialog where SaveAllChangedConfig() was unexpectedly
+ deleting Additional Help Sources from the user's config file.
+
+- Make configHelpSourceEdit OK button the default and bind <Return>
+
+- Fix Tk root pop-ups in configHelpSourceEdit: error dialogs not attached
+ to parents.
+
+- Use os.startfile() to open both Additional Help and Python Help on the
+ Windows platform. The application associated with the file type will act as
+ the viewer. Windows help files (.chm) are now supported via the
+ Settings/General/Additional Help facility.
+
+- If Python Help files are installed locally on Linux, use them instead of
+ accessing python.org.
+
+- Make the methods for finding the Python help docs more robust, and make
+ them work in the installed configuration, also.
+
+- On the Save Before Run dialog, make the OK button the default. One
+ less mouse action!
+
+- Add a method: EditorWindow.get_geometry() for future use in implementing
+ window location persistence.
+
+- Removed the "Help/Advice" menu entry. Thanks, David! We'll remember!
+
+- Change the "Classic Windows" theme's paste key to be <ctrl-v>.
+
+- Rearrange the Shell menu to put Stack Viewer entries adjacent.
+
+- Add the ability to restart the subprocess interpreter from the shell window;
+ add an associated menu entry "Shell/Restart" with binding Control-F6. Update
+ IDLE help.
+
+- Upon a restart, annotate the shell window with a "restart boundary". Add a
+ shell window menu "Shell/View Restart" with binding F6 to jump to the most
+ recent restart boundary.
+
+- Add Shell menu to Python Shell; change "Settings" to "Options".
+
+- Remove incorrect comment in setup.py: IDLEfork is now installed as a package.
+
+- Add INSTALL.txt, HISTORY.txt, NEWS.txt to installed configuration.
+
+- In installer text, fix reference to Visual Python, should be VPython.
+ Properly credit David Scherer.
+
+- Modified idle, idle.py, idle.pyw to improve exception handling.
+
+
+What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 1?
+===================================
+*Release date: 31-Dec-2002*
+
+- First release of major new functionality. For further details refer to
+ Idle-dev and/or the Sourceforge CVS.
+
+- Adapted to the Mac platform.
+
+- Overhauled the IDLE startup options and revised the idle -h help message,
+ which provides details of command line usage.
+
+- Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements.
+
+- Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The output
+ of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to inspect the
+ environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1 the shell
+ environment was separate from the environment of the user code.)
+
+- Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog.
+
+- Removed David Scherer's Remote Procedure Call code and replaced with Guido
+ van Rossum's. GvR code has support for the IDLE debugger and uses the shell
+ to inspect the environment of code Run from an Edit window. Files removed:
+ ExecBinding.py, loader.py, protocol.py, Remote.py, spawn.py
+
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+Refer to HISTORY.txt for additional information on earlier releases.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
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