From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:49:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update outdated text about how to fix the font.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~1391
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=342d8f778029c3e14bcc6f5ef7d6525fd1ab466c;p=python

Update outdated text about how to fix the font.
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diff --git a/Tools/idle/help.txt b/Tools/idle/help.txt
index a5d9a73b68..63327d7d81 100644
--- 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