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210 lines
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Original IDLE todo, much of it now outdated:
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TO DO:
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- improve debugger:
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- manage breakpoints globally, allow bp deletion, tbreak, cbreak etc.
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- real object browser
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- help on how to use it (a simple help button will do wonders)
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- performance? (updates of large sets of locals are slow)
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- better integration of "debug module"
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- debugger should be global resource (attached to flist, not to shell)
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- fix the stupid bug where you need to step twice
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- display class name in stack viewer entries for methods
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- suppress tracing through IDLE internals (e.g. print) DONE
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- add a button to suppress through a specific module or class or method
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- more object inspection to stack viewer, e.g. to view all array items
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- insert the initial current directory into sys.path DONE
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- default directory attribute for each window instead of only for windows
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that have an associated filename
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- command expansion from keywords, module contents, other buffers, etc.
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- "Recent documents" menu item DONE
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- Filter region command
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- Optional horizontal scroll bar
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- more Emacsisms:
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- ^K should cut to buffer
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- M-[, M-] to move by paragraphs
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- incremental search?
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- search should indicate wrap-around in some way
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- restructure state sensitive code to avoid testing flags all the time
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- persistent user state (e.g. window and cursor positions, bindings)
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- make backups when saving
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- check file mtimes at various points
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- Pluggable interface with RCS/CVS/Perforce/Clearcase
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- better help?
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- don't open second class browser on same module (nor second path browser)
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- unify class and path browsers
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- Need to define a standard way whereby one can determine one is running
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inside IDLE (needed for Tk mainloop, also handy for $PYTHONSTARTUP)
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- Add more utility methods for use by extensions (a la get_selection)
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- Way to run command in totally separate interpreter (fork+os.system?) DONE
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- Way to find definition of fully-qualified name:
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In other words, select "UserDict.UserDict", hit some magic key and
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it loads up UserDict.py and finds the first def or class for UserDict.
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- need a way to force colorization on/off
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- need a way to force auto-indent on/off
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Details:
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- ^O (on Unix -- open-line) should honor autoindent
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- after paste, show end of pasted text
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- on Windows, should turn short filename to long filename (not only in argv!)
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(shouldn't this be done -- or undone -- by ntpath.normpath?)
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- new autoindent after colon even indents when the colon is in a comment!
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- sometimes forward slashes in pathname remain
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- sometimes star in window name remains in Windows menu
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- With unix bindings, ESC by itself is ignored
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- Sometimes for no apparent reason a selection from the cursor to the
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end of the command buffer appears, which is hard to get rid of
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because it stays when you are typing!
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- The Line/Col in the status bar can be wrong initially in PyShell DONE
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Structural problems:
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- too much knowledge in FileList about EditorWindow (for example)
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- should add some primitives for accessing the selection etc.
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to repeat cumbersome code over and over
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Jeff Bauer suggests:
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- Open Module doesn't appear to handle hierarchical packages.
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- Class browser should also allow hierarchical packages.
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- Open and Open Module could benefit from a history, DONE
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either command line style, or Microsoft recent-file
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style.
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- Add a Smalltalk-style inspector (i.e. Tkinspect)
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The last suggestion is already a reality, but not yet
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integrated into IDLE. I use a module called inspector.py,
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that used to be available from python.org(?) It no longer
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appears to be in the contributed section, and the source
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has no author attribution.
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In any case, the code is useful for visually navigating
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an object's attributes, including its container hierarchy.
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>>> from inspector import Tkinspect
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>>> Tkinspect(None, myObject)
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Tkinspect could probably be extended and refined to
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integrate better into IDLE.
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Comparison to PTUI
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+ PTUI's help is better (HTML!)
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+ PTUI can attach a shell to any module
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+ PTUI has some more I/O commands:
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open multiple
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append
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examine (what's that?)
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Notes after trying to run Grail
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-------------------------------
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- Grail does stuff to sys.path based on sys.argv[0]; you must set
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sys.argv[0] to something decent first (it is normally set to the path of
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the idle script).
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- Grail must be exec'ed in __main__ because that's imported by some
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other parts of Grail.
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- Grail uses a module called History and so does idle :-(
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Robin Friedrich's items:
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Things I'd like to see:
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- I'd like support for shift-click extending the selection. There's a
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bug now that it doesn't work the first time you try it.
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- Printing is needed. How hard can that be on Windows? FIRST CUT DONE
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- The python-mode trick of autoindenting a line with <tab> is neat and
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very handy.
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- (someday) a spellchecker for docstrings and comments.
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- a pagedown/up command key which moves to next class/def statement (top
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level)
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- split window capability
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- DnD text relocation/copying
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Things I don't want to see.
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- line numbers... will probably slow things down way too much.
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- Please use another icon for the tree browser leaf. The small snake
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isn't cutting it.
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- Customizable views (multi-window or multi-pane). (Markus Gritsch)
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- Being able to double click (maybe double right click) on a callable
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object in the editor which shows the source of the object, if
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possible. (Gerrit Holl)
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- Hooks into the guts, like in Emacs. (Mike Romberg)
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- Sharing the editor with a remote tutor. (Martijn Faassen)
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- Multiple views on the same file. (Tony J Ibbs)
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- Store breakpoints in a global (per-project) database (GvR); Dirk
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Heise adds: save some space-trimmed context and search around when
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reopening a file that might have been edited by someone else.
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- Capture menu events in extensions without changing the IDLE source.
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(Matthias Barmeier)
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- Use overlapping panels (a "notebook" in MFC terms I think) for info
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that doesn't need to be accessible simultaneously (e.g. HTML source
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and output). Use multi-pane windows for info that does need to be
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shown together (e.g. class browser and source). (Albert Brandl)
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- A project should invisibly track all symbols, for instant search,
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replace and cross-ref. Projects should be allowed to span multiple
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directories, hosts, etc. Project management files are placed in a
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directory you specify. A global mapping between project names and
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project directories should exist [not so sure --GvR]. (Tim Peters)
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- Merge attr-tips and auto-expand. (Mark Hammond, Tim Peters)
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- Python Shell should behave more like a "shell window" as users know
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it -- i.e. you can only edit the current command, and the cursor can't
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escape from the command area. (Albert Brandl)
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- Set X11 class to "idle/Idle", set icon and title to something
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beginning with "idle" -- for window manangers. (Randall Hopper)
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- Config files editable through a preferences dialog. (me) DONE
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- Config files still editable outside the preferences dialog.
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(Randall Hopper) DONE
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- When you're editing a command in PyShell, and there are only blank
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lines below the cursor, hitting Return should ignore or delete those
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blank lines rather than deciding you're not on the last line. (me)
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- Run command (F5 c.s.) should be more like Pythonwin's Run -- a
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dialog with options to give command line arguments, run the debugger,
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etc. (me)
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- Shouldn't be able to delete part of the prompt (or any text before
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it) in the PyShell. (Martijn Faassen) DONE
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- Emacs style auto-fill (also smart about comments and strings).
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(Jeremy Hylton)
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- Output of Run Script should go to a separate output window, not to
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the shell window. Output of separate runs should all go to the same
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window but clearly delimited. (David Scherer) REJECT FIRST, LATTER DONE
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- GUI form designer to kick VB's butt. (Robert Geiger) THAT'S NOT IDLE
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- Printing! Possibly via generation of PDF files which the user must
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then send to the printer separately. (Dinu Gherman) FIRST CUT
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