IDLE problem :-(

Ishwor ishwor.gurung at gmail.com
Sat Dec 25 17:00:24 EST 2004


On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:45:02 GMT, Steven Bethard
<steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ishwor wrote:
> > I don't know if this has been a problem with other people using IDLE
> > but when i press the home key then the cursor jumps to the beginning
> > of the line and not after the prompt. If google prints the right
> > indentation then here how i want the IDLE prompt to work ->
> >
> >  |>>> |(r,b,g).__class__
> >  ^      ^
> >  ^      ^-----> want cursor here instead.
> > cursor
> > goes
> > here
> >
> > Any work around??
> 
> If you're on windows, you can try PythonWin instead.  The first time you
> hit home, the cursor will go your second |.  If you then hit home again,
> the cursor will go to your first |.

Yeah  i got the PythonWin and it does what you say but i am so used to
IDLE ( which was created originally by GvR). Its a different kind of
feeling when you are a sort of Python "Evangelist". ;-)
Moreover if i am right, this was mentioned as a sort of #fixme in
Python's source??

Thanks.

> 
> Steve
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cheers,
Ishwor Gurung



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