[Python-ideas] improve Idle

[Terry Jan Reedy]

On 5/13/2013 11:20 AM, Yuval Greenfield wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com
> <mailto:jimjjewett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Perhaps even changing the navigation so that clicking on the scrollbar
>     at 1/3 of the way down will move you to 1/3 of the way down the file,
>     instead of "one page up from where you current are."  This would no
>     longer be a standard scrollbar, but it might well be better.
>
>
>
> Non-standard scroll bar sounds bad to me. Here's how this feature works
> in Eclipse/pydev http://i.imgur.com/kQrc5n0.png

That reminds me of the merge conflict strips in, for instance kdiff3.

> Basically the scrollbar has another small strip next to it. So the
> locations are clickable, and they bring you to the right place, without
> breaking the normal scroll bar behavior.

Assuming that putting dots on a strip beside text is feasible with 
tkinter, that would be a possible optional extension. There are already 
proposals for line number strips for files and prompt strips for the shell.

Terry