mac IDLE problems

[Kevin Walzer]

7stud wrote:
> On Apr 13, 10:27Â 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. Â For instance, under the Format menu item only
>>> the shortcuts for "indent region" and "undent region" work. Â  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. Â  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. Â 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.:
>>> Â  Â  Â some text
>>> becomes:
>>> Â  Â  Â 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.
> 
You realize that packages are trivial to build for 2.5, assuming you 
have the developer tools installed? Usually it's sudo easy_install foo 
(if you have setuptools installed) or sudo python setup.py.


-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com