- more Emacsisms:

- ^K should cut to buffer

- Need to define a standard way whereby one can determine one is running

- need a way to force auto-indent on/off

- With unix bindings, ESC by itself is ignored

- Sometimes for no apparent reason a selection from the cursor to the

end of the command buffer appears, which is hard to get rid of

because it stays when you are typing!

- The Line/Col in the status bar can be wrong initially in PyShell

+ PTUI has some more I/O commands:

examine (what's that?)

Robin Friedrich's items:

Things I'd like to see:

- I'd like support for shift-click extending the selection. There's a

bug now that it doesn't work the first time you try it.

- Printing is needed. How hard can that be on Windows?

- The python-mode trick of autoindenting a line with <tab> is neat and

very handy.

- (someday) a spellchecker for docstrings and comments.

- a pagedown/up command key which moves to next class/def statement (top

level)

- split window capability

- DnD text relocation/copying

Things I don't want to see.

- line numbers... will probably slow things down way too much.

- Please use another icon for the tree browser leaf. The small snake

isn't cutting it.

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- Customizable views (multi-window or multi-pane). (Markus Gritsch)

- Being able to double click (maybe double right click) on a callable

object in the editor which shows the source of the object, if

possible. (Gerrit Holl)

- Hooks into the guts, like in Emacs. (Mike Romberg)

- Sharing the editor with a remote tutor. (Martijn Faassen)

- Multiple views on the same file. (Tony J Ibbs)

- Store breakpoints in a global (per-project) database (GvR); Dirk

Heise adds: save some space-trimmed context and search around when

reopening a file that might have been edited by someone else.

- Capture menu events in extensions without changing the IDLE source.

(Matthias Barmeier)

- Use overlapping panels (a "notebook" in MFC terms I think) for info

that doesn't need to be accessible simultaneously (e.g. HTML source

and output). Use multi-pane windows for info that does need to be

shown together (e.g. class browser and source). (Albert Brandl)

- A project should invisibly track all symbols, for instant search,

replace and cross-ref. Projects should be allowed to span multiple

directories, hosts, etc. Project management files are placed in a

directory you specify. A global mapping between project names and

project directories should exist [not so sure --GvR]. (Tim Peters)

- Merge attr-tips and auto-expand. (Mark Hammond, Tim Peters)

- Python Shell should behave more like a "shell window" as users know

it -- i.e. you can only edit the current command, and the cursor can't

escape from the command area. (Albert Brandl)

- Set X11 class to "idle/Idle", set icon and title to something

beginning with "idle" -- for window manangers. (Randall Hopper)

- Config files editable through a preferences dialog. (me)

- Config files still editable outside the preferences dialog.

(Randall Hopper)

- When you're editing a command in PyShell, and there are only blank

lines below the cursor, hitting Return should ignore or delete those

blank lines rather than deciding you're not on the last line. (me)

- Run command (F5 c.s.) should be more like Pythonwin's Run -- a

dialog with options to give command line arguments, run the debugger,

etc. (me)

- Shouldn't be able to delete part of the prompt (or any text before

it) in the PyShell. (Martijn Faassen)

- Emacs style auto-fill (also smart about comments and strings).

(Jeremy Hylton)

- Output of Run Script should go to a separate output window, not to

the shell window. Output of separate runs should all go to the same

window but clearly delimited. (David Scherer)