[Idle-dev] mouse selection extension

[Guido van Rossum]

> Maybe this has been discussed and treated already? Idle currently doesn't
> let me make a mouse selection in a way that is common to all word
> processors: click somewhere, then shift-click somewhere else to form a
> selection. Could this feature please be added? I find it confusing for this
> standard editing feature to be missing.

It's some weirdness in IDLE.  I'm aware of the problem but am afraid
that the solution (to this as well as many other little annyoances)
will require completely redoing all of the Text widget's bindings in
Python...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)