[Python-Dev] no remaining issues blocking 2.5 release

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

"A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:44:40PM -0400, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
>> It would be nice if the key IDLE changes could make it to the "What's New
>> in Python X.X".  If Andrew is interested, I could draft something for him.
>
> Sure!  I can try to look through the IDLE NEWS file, but you'd
> certainly have a better idea of which changes are most significant to
> IDLE users. 
>
> (You can commit your changes to whatsnew25.tex, module Anthony's trunk
> freeze in 12 hours or so, or just write plain text and let me add the
> LaTeX markup.)

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\subsection{The IDLE Integrated Development Environment}

Calltips have been greatly improved and a class attribute listbox
provides completions.

When the Shell cursor is on a previous command, <Enter> retrieves
that command.  But instead of replacing the input line, the previous
command is appended, preserving indentation.  If there is an active
selection, the selection will be appended to the input line.

IDLE does a tabnanny and syntax check before every F5/Run.

A number of changes were made to improve Mac OSX compatibility.

The advanced keybinding dialog was enabled, allowing multiple
complex key combinations to be bound to a given IDLE event.

A number of improvements were made to the colorizer.

The 'with' statement is now a Code Context block opener.

IDLE honors the new quit() and exit() functions.

Keybindings were added for del-word-left and del-word-right.

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KBK