Changing Fonts in IDLE-0.5

[Daniel Klein]

Jeff,

You got me curious about this so after a minute of digging, I found two
files, 'config-unix.txt' and 'config-win.txt' in the '/python20/tools/idle'
(or C:\python20\tools\idle) directory. It is in these files (depending on
your platform) where the font size can be changed.

Hope this helps,

Daniel Klein
Portland OR USA

"Jeff Stephens" <jsteve17 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3A89A78F.C4C6B70A at tampabay.rr.com...
> I am just starting out with Python and was trying to use idle, but the
> fonts
> are so small it's giving me a headache.  I followed the instructions in
> the
> help menu and tried editing the 'EditorWindow.py' file to no avail. I
> commented
> out the first line and uncommented the second as recommended: no change.
> I tried
> changing the sizes of both fonts to 10, 12: no change.  The only thing I
> can figure is
> that idle is using some default that is not reflected by either of these
> lines. Can someone
> help before I go blind.  Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Stephens
>