[Python-ideas] improve Idle

[Terry Jan Reedy]

On 5/10/2013 8:52 AM, Todd V. Rovito wrote:
>
> On May 10, 2013, at 5:36 AM, Alexandre Boulay
> <alexandre.boulay59 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think that could be a good idea to put colored  dots on idle's
>> scroll bar for each def or class created,  each got its own color,

I cannot really understand what you are proposing. The scroll bar is for 
scrolling, and it has the arrow buttons and the bar itself that would 
interfere with placing dots. Furthermore, scroll bars are widgets 
defined by tk and as far as I know, IDLE has no control over the 
detailed appearance.

>> that's not a big conceptual improvement but that could be helpfull
>> to show the structure, show what is what and which class is in
>> which class _______________________________________________

Furthermore, I do not see how dots would really show that structure.

Are you familiar with with the Code Context option on the Options menu? 
Although I think it needs some polishing (to show all context, not just 
the three innermost lines), it already does what you seem to want, but 
with indented names rather than by nameless dots.

> Alexandre, Sounds like a great idea to me!  I recommend you open up
> an enhancement issue on bugs.python.org

If, after looking as the existing Code Context option, you still have an 
idea for improvememt, please post to idle-dev first.

Todd, please don't suggest that people post half-baked, possibly 
impossible to code, ideas to the tracker. The tracker already has a 
thousand enhancement requests. Many are dead clutter. Others need 
discussion that they will never get on the tracker. In general, I think 
it is much better for code ideas to come first to this list or, for Idle 
ideas, idle-dev, to see if they are new, feasible, and have sufficient 
support to be applied once coded.

Terry