How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

[Mensanator]

On Jan 4, 10:05 am, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap... at case.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
> > ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window?
>
> > Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font?
>
> > For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools,
> > someone decided that proportional spaced fonts ought to be the
> > default for IDLE.
> > --
> >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
> Mac Applications don't have "options" menus. They have a "preferences"
> pane which is the second item in the application menu

Sometimes it's the second item, sometimes it's not

> (the one that
> takes the name of the active program) and has a keyboard shortcut of
> Cmd-,
>
> Apple's user-interface guidelines are pretty specific, so you'll find
> that this works for all native OS X (i.e. not X11) applications.

Right, it doesn't apply to IDLE which uses X11 (there is a preferences
window,
but it doesn't have any font control, unlike stuff like Safari).

I assume there must be a configuration file. Any idea what that file
is called?