[Idle-dev] A little improvement on identation

João Paulo Silva s.joaopaulo at gmail.com
Sat Oct 22 19:54:38 CEST 2005


Yes, I haven't think on that.

It would be interesting turning the left three chars unselectable and
uneditable.

A possible implementation could use two frames in the main text area.

Well, I'll take a look at the source, and try to purpose something
more consistent.

--
João Paulo da Silva

2005/10/21, Noam Raphael <noamraph at gmail.com>:
> On 10/21/05, Grégoire Dooms <dooms at info.ucl.ac.be> wrote:
> > The rationale is that using the
> > Idle style eases copy-paste of the code.
>
> I think that this is one reason, but probably the main reason is that
> in IDLE the complete block is editable, and those three dots would get
> in the middle.
>
> I think that it may actually be a good idea, but it would need some
> work - for example, pressing backspace when the cursor is after the
> "dot prompt" should delete the prompt and get to the previous line.
>
> Interesting...
> Noam
>


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