- better integration of "debug module"
- debugger should be global resource (attached to flist, not to shell)
- fix the stupid bug where you need to step twice
- - after closing and reopening PyShell, debugger no longer works :-(
- display class name in stack viewer entries for methods
- suppress tracing through IDLE internals (e.g. print)
- add a button to suppress through a specific module or class or method
- "Recent documents" menu item
- Filter region command
- Optional horizontal scroll bar
-- more emacsisms:
- - parentheses matching
+- more Emacsisms:
+ - ^K should cut to buffer
- M-[, M-] to move by paragraphs
- incremental search?
- - ^K should cut to buffer
- search should indicate wrap-around in some way
- restructure state sensitive code to avoid testing flags all the time
- persistent user state (e.g. window and cursor positions, bindings)
- make backups when saving
- check file mtimes at various points
- Pluggable interface with RCS/CVS/Perforce/Clearcase
-- status bar???
- better help?
- don't open second class browser on same module (nor second path browser)
- unify class and path browsers
-- use a tree widget instead of a smalltalk/NeXT style multicolumn browser
- Need to define a standard way whereby one can determine one is running
+- Need to define a standard way whereby one can determine one is running
inside IDLE (needed for Tk mainloop, also handy for $PYTHONSTARTUP)
- Add more utility methods for use by extensions (a la get_selection)
- Way to run command in totally separate interpreter (fork+os.system?)
In other words, select "UserDict.UserDict", hit some magic key and
it loads up UserDict.py and finds the first def or class for UserDict.
- need a way to force colorization on/off
+- need a way to force auto-indent on/off
Details:
- new autoindent after colon even indents when the colon is in a comment!
- sometimes forward slashes in pathname remain
- sometimes star in window name remains in Windows menu
+- 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
Structural problems:
Jeff Bauer suggests:
-- The editor should show the current line number.
- Open Module doesn't appear to handle hierarchical packages.
- Class browser should also allow hierarchical packages.
- Open and Open Module could benefit from a history,
Comparison to PTUI
------------------
-+ PTUI has a status line
-
+ PTUI's help is better (HTML!)
+ PTUI can attach a shell to any module
-+ PTUI has more bells and whistles:
++ PTUI has some more I/O commands:
open multiple
append
- examine
-
-? PTUI's fontify is faster but synchronous (and still too slow);
- does a lousy job if editing affects lines below
-
-- PTUI's shell is worse:
- no coloring;
- no editing of multi-line commands;
- ^P seems to permanently remove some text from the buffer
-
-- PTUI's undo is worse:
- no redo;
- one char at a time
-
-- PTUI's GUI is a tad ugly:
- I don't like the multiple buffers in one window model;
- I don't like the big buttons at the top of the widow
-
-- PTUI lacks an integrated debugger
-
-- PTUI lacks path and class browsers
-
-- PTUI lacks many of IDLE's features:
- - expand word
- - regular expression search
- - search files (grep)
- - (un)tabify
- - center
- - zoom height
+ examine (what's that?)
======================================================================
- Grail uses a module called History and so does idle :-(
======================================================================
+
+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.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+- 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)
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