Update outdated text about how to fix the font.

diff --git a/Tools/idle/help.txt b/Tools/idle/help.txt
index a5d9a73b68f45a66013dbaf616d4e9f1442fc92b..63327d7d81f68d3c13bd2dca89553e9aae0090a7 100644 (file)
--- a/Tools/idle/help.txt
+++ b/Tools/idle/help.txt
@@ -123,10 +123,11 @@ Syntax colors:
 
 Other preferences:
 
-       To change the font on Windows, open EditorWindow.py and change
-           text['font'] = ("lucida console", 8)
-       to, e.g.,
-           text['font'] = ("courier new", 10)
+       Most preferences can be changed by editing one of the
+       configuration text files: config.txt (generic) or one of
+       config-unix.txt, config-win.txt, config.mac.txt (platform
+       specific).  User-specific preferences can be stored in
+       $HOME/.idle, which overrides the config*.txt files.
 
        To change keyboard bindings, edit Bindings.py