[Idle-dev] issue 2704 - shell terminal functionality

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/12/2015 3:18 PM, Sean Felipe Wolfe wrote:
> Ok, I finished a successful test on W7. Previously I also tested this
> on OSX and Lubuntu linux, so I think we can call this tested for 2.7 .
>
> The installation steps were:
> * copy Terminal.py to Lib/idlelib
> * apply PyShell.py.patch .
>
> What do you think -- could we get that patch and Terminal.py committed
> to the 2.7 main line?

Any change would be applied to all current versions: 2.7, 3.4, 3.5.

There are two proposed changes, and they should be considered separately.

I explained on the issue why I am not happy with the patch as is and the 
alternatives I would like to consider.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy