Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version
would not start if a custom theme was defined.
- Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white
space. Patch 1196903 Jeff Shute.
- Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic. Patch 2062 Tal Einat.
- Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the
'/' char on Windows. Patch 2061 Tal Einat.
What's New in IDLE 2.6a1?
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*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
- Configured selection highlighting colors were ignored; updating highlighting
in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they
were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator. Patch 1334. Tal Einat.
- ScriptBinding event handlers weren't returning 'break'. Patch 2050, Tal Einat.
- There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647.
- Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows.
Issue 1743, Issue 1862.
- Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding. Patch 1457 Tal Einat.
- tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows
of tabs. Patch 1612746 Tal Einat.
- Add confirmation dialog before printing. Patch 1717170 Tal Einat.
- Show paste position if > 80 col. Patch 1659326 Tal Einat.
- Update cursor color without restarting. Patch 1725576 Tal Einat.
- Allow keyboard interrupt only when user code is executing in subprocess.
Patch 1225 Tal Einat (reworked from IDLE-Spoon).
- configDialog cleanup. Patch 1730217 Tal Einat.
- textView cleanup. Patch 1718043 Tal Einat.
- Clean up EditorWindow close.
- Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X. Backport of r56204.
- OSX: Avoid crash for those versions of Tcl/Tk which don't have a console
- Bug in idlelib.MultiCall: Options dialog was crashing IDLE if there was an
option in config-extensions w/o a value. Patch #1672481, Tal Einat
- Corrected some bugs in AutoComplete. Also, Page Up/Down in ACW implemented;
mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts
current selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll
wheel now works in ACW. Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help.
- AutoCompleteWindow moved below input line, will move above if there
isn't enough space. Patch 1621265 Tal Einat
- Calltips now 'handle' tuples in the argument list (display '<tuple>' :)
Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968.
- Add 'raw' support to configHandler. Patch 1650174 Tal Einat.
- Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112.
- Patch #1362975: Rework CodeContext indentation algorithm to
avoid hard-coding pixel widths.
- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
is started with that option.
- Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092)
- Some syntax errors were being caught by tokenize during the tabnanny
check, resulting in obscure error messages. Do the syntax check
first. Bug 1562716, 1562719
- IDLE's version number takes a big jump to match the version number of
the Python release of which it's a part.