Bunch of updates necessary due to recent changes; added docs for File

menu, command line and color preferences.
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Guido van Rossum 1999-04-22 23:20:17 +00:00
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@ -4,7 +4,24 @@ Click on the dotted line at the top of a menu to "tear it off": a
separate window containing the menu is created.
File menu:
(This should speak for itself.)
New window -- create a new editing window
Open... -- open an existing file
Open module... -- open an existing module (searches sys.path)
Class browser -- show classes and methods in current file
Path browser -- show sys.path directories, modules, classes
and methods
---
Save -- save current window to the associated file (unsaved
windows have a * before and after the window title)
Save As... -- save current window to new file, which becomes
the associated file
Save Copy As... -- save current window to different file
without changing the associated file
---
Close -- close current window (asks to save if unsaved)
Exit -- close all windows and quit IDLE (asks to save if unsaved)
Edit menu:
@ -33,8 +50,8 @@ Edit menu:
word in the same buffer; repeat to get a different expansion
Format Paragraph -- Reformat the current blank-line-separated paragraph
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Run module -- Import or reload the current module
Debug module -- Ditto, under debugger control
Import module -- Import or reload the current module
Run script -- Execute the current file in the __main__ namespace
Windows menu:
@ -64,9 +81,12 @@ Basic editing and navigation:
Automatic indentation:
After a block-opening statement, the next line is indented by
4 spaces (in the Python Shell window by one tab). In leading
indentation, Backspace deletes 4 spaces if they are there.
Also see the indent/dedent region commands.
4 spaces (in the Python Shell window by one tab). After
certain keywords (break, return etc.) the next line is
dedented. In leading indentation, Backspace deletes up to 4
spaces if they are there. Tab inserts 1-4 spaces (in the
Python Shell window one tab). See also the indent/dedent
region commands in the edit menu.
Python Shell window:
@ -80,26 +100,56 @@ Python Shell window:
Return while on any previous command retrieves that command
Alt-/ (Expand word) is also useful here
Python syntax colors: the coloring is applied in the background.
Syntax colors:
The coloring is applied in a background "thread", so you may
occasionally see uncolorized text. To change the color
scheme, edit the ColorPrefs class in IdlePrefs.py.
Python syntax colors:
Keywords orange
Strings green
Comments red
Definitions blue
Shell colors:
Shell colors:
Console output brown
stdout blue
stderr dark green
stdin black
Tips:
Other preferences:
To change the font on Windows, open EditorWindow.py and change
text['font'] = ("verdana", 8)
text['font'] = ("lucida console", 8)
to, e.g.,
text['font'] = ("courier new", 10)
To change the Python syntax colors, edit the tagdefs table in
ColorDelegator.py; to change the shell colors, edit the tagdefs
table in PyShell.py.
To change keyboard bindings, edit Bindings.py
Command line usage:
idle.py [-c command] [-d] [-e] [-s] [-t title] [arg] ...
-c command run this command
-d enable debugger
-e edit mode; arguments are files to be edited
-s run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP first
-t title set title of shell window
If there are arguments:
If -e is used, arguments are files opened for editing and
sys.argv reflects the arguments passed to IDLE itself.
Otherwise, if -c is used, all arguments are placed in
sys.argv[1:...], with sys.argv[0] set to '-c'.
Otherwise, if neither -e nor -c is used, the first
argument is a script which is executed with the remaining
arguments in sys.argv[1:...] and sys.argv[0] set to the
script name. If the script name is '-', no script is
executed but an interactive Python session is started; the
arguments are still available in sys.argv.