[Python-checkins] bpo-35770: IDLE macosx deletes Options => Configure IDLE. (GH-11614)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a01e23559fd77083a2c6c59692b70d7896e5f59a
commit: a01e23559fd77083a2c6c59692b70d7896e5f59a
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-01-18T11:16:01-08:00
summary:

bpo-35770: IDLE macosx deletes Options => Configure IDLE. (GH-11614)


It previously deleted Window => Zoom Height by mistake.
(Zoom Height is now on the Options menu).  On Mac, the settings
dialog is accessed via Preferences on the IDLE menu.
(cherry picked from commit 39ed289a3511d2e9bf0950a9d5dc53c8194f61b9)

Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-01-18-13-04-30.bpo-35770.2LxJGu.rst
M Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
M Lib/idlelib/macosx.py

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index a1964def362b..4d3da19ac372 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ Released on 2019-??-??
 ======================================
 
 
+bpo-35770: IDLE macosx deletes Options => Configure IDLE.
+It previously deleted Window => Zoom Height by mistake.
+(Zoom Height is now on the Options menu).  On Mac, the settings
+dialog is accessed via Preferences on the IDLE menu.
+
 bpo-35769: Change new file name from 'Untitled' to 'untitled'.
 
 bpo-35660: Fix imports in window module.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/macosx.py b/Lib/idlelib/macosx.py
index 9be4ed2ec411..d6a1b376a1c2 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/macosx.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/macosx.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ def overrideRootMenu(root, flist):
     del mainmenu.menudefs[-1][1][0:2]
     # Remove the 'Configure Idle' entry from the options menu, it is in the
     # application menu as 'Preferences'
-    del mainmenu.menudefs[-2][1][0]
+    del mainmenu.menudefs[-3][1][0:1]
     menubar = Menu(root)
     root.configure(menu=menubar)
     menudict = {}
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-01-18-13-04-30.bpo-35770.2LxJGu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-01-18-13-04-30.bpo-35770.2LxJGu.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..89e4bdef83ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-01-18-13-04-30.bpo-35770.2LxJGu.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+IDLE macosx deletes Options => Configure IDLE. It previously deleted Window
+=> Zoom Height by mistake. (Zoom Height is now on the Options menu).  On
+Mac, the settings dialog is accessed via Preferences on the IDLE menu.