mac IDLE problems

[7stud]

On Apr 13, 10:27 am, Kevin Walzer <k... at codebykevin.com> wrote:
> 7stud wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > In the IDLE, I can't get most shortcut keys that are listed next to
> > the menu items to work.  For instance, under the Format menu item only
> > the shortcuts for "indent region" and "undent region" work.   If I
> > highlight some text and use Shift+3 to comment out the region I
> > highlighted, the code is erased and I get the # symbol.   When I use
> > the option(alt key) and type a character, I get things like this:
>
> > ƒ,¢,º,˚
>
> > I looked under Options/Configure IDLE/Keys and tried the various built
> > in key sets, and none seem to work.
>
> > I also can't use my mouse to copy(or cut) and paste.  When I highlight
> > something and right click(in an attempt to bring up the context menu
> > that has copy, cut, paste, etc.), the text that is highlighted is
> > doubled when I right click, e.g.:
>
> >      some text
>
> > becomes:
>
> >      some textsome text
>
> > And, sometimes when I try to highlight a line, the line 7 lines below
> > the cursor gets highlighted.
>
> > intel mac, os 10.4.7, python 2.4.4
>
> IDLE under 2.5 has been much improved on the Mac; all the standard Mac
> keyboard shortcuts are supported, and in general it's more stable. With
> 2.5, IDLE replaces the old PythonIDE that used to ship with MacPython.
> Can you update to 2.5?
>
> --
> Kevin Walzer
> Code by Kevinhttp://www.codebykevin.com

Thanks for the info.  I just updated to 2.4.4 because the download
said there were more packages for the mac than with 2.5.  I think I'll
probably just stick to vim for an editor.