[Idle-dev] Windows Helpfiles

[Hernan Martinez Foffani]

[Kurt]
> OK, then we have two choices: leave it hardwired in EditorWindow or
> let the user use the Extra Help facility to add it.
> 
> Right now, if it is found it will be used instead of the standard
> Python html help even if the latter exists locally.
> 
> Third possiblility, change the search order to look for pythlp.chm
> last. 
> 
> My inclination? Let the user add it to Extra Help.

The third possibility to be useful would mean that the user must
rename, move or delete the standard Doc/* directory.

So long the Extra Help works with files that aren't .htm/.html,
dispatching them thru os.startfile() for instance, I don't mind.

-Hernan