[Python-ideas] improve Idle

[Andrew Barnert]

It's probably worth looking at a slew of different IDEs (Eclipse, Visual Studio, Xcode, CodeBlocks, etc.) to survey all the ways this kind of thing is done, before deciding what's the best match for idle.

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On May 13, 2013, at 9:41, Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> 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
> 
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