[Idle-dev] open idle edit window only?

[Paul Guse]

Thanks for the reply.
If a patch is relatively straight forward I would be definitely interested. 
(time is fairly important).
I was thinking of hacking it by changing the config file before I ran idle, 
but something more elegant would be great :)
Paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tal Einat" <taleinat at gmail.com>
To: "Paul Guse" <paul at mustagh.com>
Cc: <idle-dev at python.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Idle-dev] open idle edit window only?


> On 7/20/07, Paul Guse <paul at mustagh.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to open just the edit window (without the run window) from
>> the commandline?
>> I can go into the idle configuration and change the "At Startup" option 
>> to
>> "Open Edit Window" and this does what I'm looking for, but I need to be 
>> able
>> to do this without manually going into idle and changing it.
>> I need to be able to control this through the commandline (or equivalent)
>> without making the user set up the options manually.
>> Any suggestions?
>> Thanks.
>
> Unfortunately, no. As long as the "At Startup" option in the
> configuration dialog is set to "Open Shell Window", a shell window
> will always be opened.
>
> I agree that there should be a command-line option to explicitly not
> open a shell window. I'll post a feature request to SourceForge.
>
> If you want this quickly, I can work up a quick patch for you.
>
> - Tal
>