[issue15808] Possibility of setting custom key bindings for "Additional help sources" menu items
Ned Deily
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Aug 29 22:02:27 CEST 2012
Ned Deily added the comment:
Actually, IDLE does have code to look for an on-disk copy of the html-formatted Python documentation set but the paths are platform-specific and, in the Linux case, are out-of-date for some distributions at least. For Linux platforms it looks for `index.html` in either `/var/www/html/python` or `/usr/share/doc/python-docs-x.y/Doc/`. On current Debian systems, for example, the Python doc package is installed in `/usr/share/doc/pythonx.y-doc/html`. If you install the doc packages and then create a link, IDLE should find the docs off-line when you select `Python Docs` from the `Help` manual. For example, for Python 3.3 you *could* do:
sudo aptitude install python3.3-doc
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/python3.3-doc/html python
That said, the default locations should be updated. And perhaps a more useful customization would be to add a user configuration option for where to look for the on-disk copy of the docs rather than adding another hot key. (Also, older versions of Python are in security fix mode only.)
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nosy: +ned.deily
stage: -> needs patch
versions: -Python 2.6, Python 3.1
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