What's New in IDLE 2.6a3?

=========================

*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*

- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version

  would not start if a custom theme was defined.

- Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white

  space.  Patch 1196903 Jeff Shute.

- Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic.  Patch 2062 Tal Einat.

- Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the

  '/' char on Windows.  Patch 2061 Tal Einat.

What's New in IDLE 2.6a1?

=========================

*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*

- Configured selection highlighting colors were ignored; updating highlighting

  in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they

  were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator.  Patch 1334. Tal Einat.

- ScriptBinding event handlers weren't returning 'break'. Patch 2050, Tal Einat.

- There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647.

- Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows.

  Issue 1743, Issue 1862.

- Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding.  Patch 1457 Tal Einat.

- tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows

  of tabs.  Patch 1612746 Tal Einat.

- Add confirmation dialog before printing.  Patch 1717170 Tal Einat.

- Show paste position if > 80 col.  Patch 1659326 Tal Einat.

- Update cursor color without restarting.  Patch 1725576 Tal Einat.

- Allow keyboard interrupt only when user code is executing in subprocess.

  Patch 1225 Tal Einat (reworked from IDLE-Spoon).

- configDialog cleanup. Patch 1730217 Tal Einat.

- textView cleanup. Patch 1718043 Tal Einat.

- Clean up EditorWindow close.

- Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X. Backport of r56204.

- OSX: Avoid crash for those versions of Tcl/Tk which don't have a console

- Bug in idlelib.MultiCall: Options dialog was crashing IDLE if there was an

  option in config-extensions w/o a value. Patch #1672481, Tal Einat

- Corrected some bugs in AutoComplete.  Also, Page Up/Down in ACW implemented;

  mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts

  current selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll

  wheel now works in ACW.  Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help.

- AutoCompleteWindow moved below input line, will move above if there

  isn't enough space.  Patch 1621265 Tal Einat

- Calltips now 'handle' tuples in the argument list (display '<tuple>' :)

  Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968.

- Add 'raw' support to configHandler. Patch 1650174 Tal Einat.

- Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112.

- Patch #1362975: Rework CodeContext indentation algorithm to

  avoid hard-coding pixel widths.

- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent

  is started with that option.

- Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092)

- Some syntax errors were being caught by tokenize during the tabnanny

  check, resulting in obscure error messages.  Do the syntax check

  first.  Bug 1562716, 1562719

- IDLE's version number takes a big jump to match the version number of

  the Python release of which it's a part.

What's New in IDLE 1.2?

=======================

*Release date: 19-SEP-2006*

What's New in IDLE 1.2c1?

=========================

*Release date: 17-AUG-2006*

- File menu hotkeys: there were three 'p' assignments.  Reassign the

  'Save Copy As' and 'Print' hotkeys to 'y' and 't'.  Change the

  Shell hotkey from 's' to 'l'.

- IDLE honors new quit() and exit() commands from site.py Quitter() object.

  Patch 1540892, Jim Jewett

- The 'with' statement is now a Code Context block opener.

  Patch 1540851, Jim Jewett

- Retrieval of previous shell command was not always preserving indentation

  (since 1.2a1) Patch 1528468 Tal Einat.

- Changing tokenize (39046) to detect dedent broke tabnanny check (since 1.2a1)

- ToggleTab dialog was setting indent to 8 even if cancelled (since 1.2a1).

- When used w/o subprocess, all exceptions were preceded by an error

  message claiming they were IDLE internal errors (since 1.2a1).

What's New in IDLE 1.2b3?

=========================

*Release date: 03-AUG-2006*

- Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips.

- Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly

- Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a

  path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X

- EditorWindow.test() was failing.  Bug 1417598

- EditorWindow failed when used stand-alone if sys.ps1 not set.

  Bug 1010370 Dave Florek

- Tooltips failed on new-syle class __init__ args.  Bug 1027566 Loren Guthrie

- Avoid occasional failure to detect closing paren properly.

  Patch 1407280 Tal Einat

- Rebinding Tab key was inserting 'tab' instead of 'Tab'.  Bug 1179168.

- Colorizer now handles #<builtin> correctly, also unicode strings and

  'as' keyword in comment directly following import command. Closes 1325071.

  Patch 1479219 Tal Einat

What's New in IDLE 1.2b2?

=========================

*Release date: 11-JUL-2006*

What's New in IDLE 1.2b1?

=========================

*Release date: 20-JUN-2006*

What's New in IDLE 1.2a2?

=========================

*Release date: 27-APR-2006*

What's New in IDLE 1.2a1?

=========================

*Release date: 05-APR-2006*

- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.

- Source file f.flush() after writing; trying to avoid lossage if user

  kills GUI.

- Options / Keys / Advanced dialog made functional.  Also, allow binding

  of 'movement' keys.

- 'syntax' patch adds improved calltips and a new class attribute listbox.

  MultiCall module allows binding multiple actions to an event.

  Patch 906702 Noam Raphael

- Better indentation after first line of string continuation.

  IDLEfork Patch 681992, Noam Raphael

- Fixed CodeContext alignment problem, following suggestion from Tal Einat.

- Increased performance in CodeContext extension  Patch 936169 Noam Raphael

- Mac line endings were incorrect when pasting code from some browsers

  when using X11 and the Fink distribution.  Python Bug 1263656.

- <Enter> when cursor is on a previous command retrieves that command.  Instead

  of replacing the input line, the previous command is now appended to the

  input line. Indentation is preserved, and undo is enabled.

  Patch 1196917  Jeff Shute

- Clarify "tab/space" Error Dialog and "Tab Width" Dialog associated with

  the Untabify command.

- Corrected "tab/space" Error Dialog to show correct menu for Untabify.

  Patch 1196980 Jeff Shute

- New files are colorized by default, and colorizing is removed when

  saving as non-Python files. Patch 1196895 Jeff Shute

  Closes Python Bugs 775012 and 800432, partial fix IDLEfork 763524

- Improve subprocess link error notification.

- run.py: use Queue's blocking feature instead of sleeping in the main

  loop.  Patch # 1190163 Michiel de Hoon

- Add config-main option to make the 'history' feature non-cyclic.

  Default remains cyclic.  Python Patch 914546 Noam Raphael.

- Removed ability to configure tabs indent from Options dialog.  This 'feature'

  has never worked and no one has complained.  It is still possible to set a

  default tabs (v. spaces) indent 'manually' via config-main.def (or to turn on

  tabs for the current EditorWindow via the Format menu) but IDLE will

  encourage indentation via spaces.

- Enable setting the indentation width using the Options dialog.

  Bug # 783877

- Add keybindings for del-word-left and del-word-right.

- Discourage using an indent width other than 8 when using tabs to indent

  Python code.

- Restore use of EditorWindow.set_indentation_params(), was dead code since

  Autoindent was merged into EditorWindow.  This allows IDLE to conform to the

  indentation width of a loaded file.  (But it still will not switch to tabs

  even if the file uses tabs.)  Any change in indent width is local to that

  window.

- Add Tabnanny check before Run/F5, not just when Checking module.

- If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of

  erroring out.

- Improve error handling when .idlerc can't be created (warn and exit).

- The GUI was hanging if the shell window was closed while a raw_input()

  was pending.  Restored the quit() of the readline() mainloop().

  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2004-December/002307.html

- The remote procedure call module rpc.py can now access data attributes of

  remote registered objects.  Changes to these attributes are local, however.

What's New in IDLE 1.1?

=======================

*Release date: 30-NOV-2004*

- On OpenBSD, terminating IDLE with ctrl-c from the command line caused a

  stuck subprocess MainThread because only the SocketThread was exiting.

What's New in IDLE 1.1b3/rc1?

=============================

*Release date: 18-NOV-2004*

- Saving a Keyset w/o making changes (by using the "Save as New Custom Key Set"

  button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in

  config-keys.cfg).  Also true for Theme/highlights.  Python Bug 1064535.

- A change to the linecache.py API caused IDLE to exit when an exception was

  raised while running without the subprocess (-n switch).  Python Bug 1063840.

What's New in IDLE 1.1b2?

=========================

*Release date: 03-NOV-2004*

- When paragraph reformat width was made configurable, a bug was

  introduced that caused reformatting of comment blocks to ignore how

  far the block was indented, effectively adding the indentation width

  to the reformat width.  This has been repaired, and the reformat

  width is again a bound on the total width of reformatted lines.

What's New in IDLE 1.1b1?

=========================

*Release date: 15-OCT-2004*

What's New in IDLE 1.1a3?

=========================

*Release date: 02-SEP-2004*

- Improve keyboard focus binding, especially in Windows menu.  Improve

  window raising, especially in the Windows menu and in the debugger.

  IDLEfork 763524.

- If user passes a non-existant filename on the commandline, just

  open a new file, don't raise a dialog.  IDLEfork 854928.

What's New in IDLE 1.1a2?

=========================

*Release date: 05-AUG-2004*

- EditorWindow.py was not finding the .chm help file on Windows.  Typo

  at Rev 1.54.  Python Bug 990954

- checking sys.platform for substring 'win' was breaking IDLE docs on Mac

  (darwin).  Also, Mac Safari browser requires full file:// URIs.  SF 900580.

What's New in IDLE 1.1a1?

=========================

*Release date: 08-JUL-2004*

- Redirect the warning stream to the shell during the ScriptBinding check of

  user code and format the warning similarly to an exception for both that

  check and for runtime warnings raised in the subprocess.

- CodeContext hint pane visibility state is now persistent across sessions.

  The pane no longer appears in the shell window.  Added capability to limit

  extensions to shell window or editor windows.  Noam Raphael addition

  to Patch 936169.

- Paragraph reformat width is now a configurable parameter in the

  Options GUI.

- New Extension: CodeContext.  Provides block structuring hints for code

  which has scrolled above an edit window. Patch 936169 Noam Raphael.

- If nulls somehow got into the strings in recent-files.lst

  EditorWindow.update_recent_files_list() was failing.  Python Bug 931336.

- If the normal background is changed via Configure/Highlighting, it will

  update immediately, thanks to the previously mentioned patch by Nigel Rowe.

- Add a highlight theme for builtin keywords.  Python Patch 805830 Nigel Rowe

  This also fixed IDLEfork bug [ 693418 ] Normal text background color not

  refreshed and Python bug [897872 ] Unknown color name on HP-UX

- rpc.py:SocketIO - Large modules were generating large pickles when downloaded

  to the execution server.  The return of the OK response from the subprocess

  initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not

  ready.  Add an IO ready test to fix this.  Moved the polling IO ready test

  into pollpacket().

- Fix typo in rpc.py, s/b "pickle.PicklingError" not "pickle.UnpicklingError".

- Added a Tk error dialog to run.py inform the user if the subprocess can't

  connect to the user GUI process.  Added a timeout to the GUI's listening

  socket.  Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind

  the port or connect to the subprocess.  Clean up error handling during

  connection initiation phase.  This is an update of Python Patch 778323.

- Print correct exception even if source file changed since shell was

  restarted.  IDLEfork Patch 869012 Noam Raphael

- Keybindings with the Shift modifier now work correctly.  So do bindings which

  use the Space key.  Limit unmodified user keybindings to the function keys.

  Python Bug 775353, IDLEfork Bugs 755647, 761557

- After an exception, run.py was not setting the exception vector. Noam

  Raphael suggested correcting this so pdb's postmortem pm() would work.

  IDLEfork Patch 844675

- IDLE now does not fail to save the file anymore if the Tk buffer is not a

  Unicode string, yet eol_convention is.  Python Bugs 774680, 788378

- IDLE didn't start correctly when Python was installed in "Program Files" on

  W2K and XP.  Python Bugs 780451, 784183

- config-main.def documentation incorrectly referred to idle- instead of

  config-  filenames.  SF 782759  Also added note about .idlerc location.

What's New in IDLE 1.0?

=======================

*Release date: 29-Jul-2003*

- Added a banner to the shell discussing warnings possibly raised by personal

  firewall software.  Added same comment to README.txt.

What's New in IDLE 1.0 release candidate 2?

===========================================

*Release date: 24-Jul-2003*

- Calltip error when docstring was None  Python Bug 775541

What's New in IDLE 1.0 release candidate 1?

===========================================

*Release date: 18-Jul-2003*

- Updated extend.txt, help.txt, and config-extensions.def to correctly

  reflect the current status of the configuration system.  Python Bug 768469

- Fixed: Call Tip Trimming May Loop Forever. Python Patch 769142 (Daniels)

- Replaced apply(f, args, kwds) with f(*args, **kwargs) to improve performance

  Python Patch 768187

- Break or continue statements outside a loop were causing IDLE crash

  Python Bug 767794

- Convert Unicode strings from readline to IOBinding.encoding.  Also set

  sys.std{in|out|err}.encoding, for both the local and the subprocess case.

  SF IDLEfork patch 682347.

What's New in IDLE 1.0b2?

=========================

*Release date: 29-Jun-2003*

- Extend AboutDialog.ViewFile() to support file encodings.  Make the CREDITS

  file Latin-1.

- Updated the About dialog to reflect re-integration into Python.  Provide

  buttons to display Python's NEWS, License, and Credits, plus additional

  buttons for IDLE's README and NEWS.

- TextViewer() now has a third parameter which allows inserting text into the

  viewer instead of reading from a file.

- (Created the .../Lib/idlelib directory in the Python CVS, which is a clone of

  IDLEfork modified to install in the Python environment.  The code in the

  interrupt module has been moved to thread.interrupt_main(). )

- Printing the Shell window was failing if it was not saved first SF 748975

- When using the Search in Files dialog, if the user had a selection

  highlighted in his Editor window, insert it into the dialog search field.

- The Python Shell entry was disappearing from the Windows menu.

- Update the Windows file list when a file name change occurs

- Change to File / Open Module: always pop up the dialog, using the current

  selection as the default value.  This is easier to use habitually.

- Avoided a problem with starting the subprocess when 'localhost' doesn't

  resolve to the user's loopback interface.  SF 747772

- Fixed an issue with highlighted errors never de-colorizing.  SF 747677.  Also

  improved notification of Tabnanny Token Error.

- File / New will by default save in the directory of the Edit window from

  which it was initiated.  SF 748973 Guido van Rossum patch.

What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1?

=============================

*Release date: 02-Jun-2003*

- The current working directory of the execution environment (and shell

  following completion of execution) is now that of the module being run.

- Added the delete-exitfunc option to config-main.def.  (This option is not

  included in the Options dialog.)  Setting this to True (the default) will

  cause IDLE to not run sys.exitfunc/atexit when the subprocess exits.

- IDLE now preserves the line ending codes when editing a file produced on

  a different platform. SF 661759,  SF 538584

- Reduced default editor font size to 10 point and increased window height

  to provide a better initial impression on Windows.

- Options / Fonts/Tabs / Set Base Editor Font: List box was not highlighting

  the default font when first installed on Windows.  SF 661676

- Added Autosave feature: when user runs code from edit window, if the file

  has been modified IDLE will silently save it if Autosave is enabled.  The

  option is set in the Options dialog, and the default is to prompt the

  user to save the file.   SF 661318 Bruce Sherwood patch.

- Improved the RESTART annotation in the shell window when the user restarts

  the shell while it is generating output.  Also improved annotation when user

  repeatedly hammers the Ctrl-F6 restart.

- Allow IDLE to run when not installed and cwd is not the IDLE directory

  SF Patch 686254 "Run IDLEfork from any directory without set-up" - Raphael

- When a module is run from an EditorWindow: if its directory is not in

  sys.path, prepend it.  This allows the module to import other modules in

  the same directory.  Do the same for a script run from the command line.

- Correctly restart the subprocess if it is running user code and the user

  attempts to run some other module or restarts the shell.  Do the same if

  the link is broken and it is possible to restart the subprocess and re-

  connect to the GUI.   SF RFE 661321.

- Improved exception reporting when running commands or scripts from the

  command line.

- Added a -n command line switch to start IDLE without the subprocess.

  Removed the Shell menu when running in that mode.  Updated help messages.

- Added a comment to the shell startup header to indicate when IDLE is not

  using the subprocess.

- Restore the ability to run without the subprocess.  This can be important for

  some platforms or configurations.  (Running without the subprocess allows the

  debugger to trace through parts of IDLE itself, which may or may not be

  desirable, depending on your point of view.  In addition, the traditional

  reload/import tricks must be use if user source code is changed.)  This is

  helpful for developing IDLE using IDLE, because one instance can be used to

  edit the code and a separate instance run to test changes.  (Multiple

  concurrent IDLE instances with subprocesses is a future feature)

- Improve the error message a user gets when saving a file with non-ASCII

  characters and no source encoding is specified.  Done by adding a dialog

  'EncodingMessage', which contains the line to add in a fixed-font entry

  widget, and which has a button to add that line to the file automatically.

  Also, add a configuration option 'EditorWindow/encoding', which has three

  possible values: none, utf-8, and locale. None is the default: IDLE will show

  this dialog when non-ASCII characters are encountered. utf-8 means that files

  with non-ASCII characters are saved as utf-8-with-bom. locale means that

  files are saved in the locale's encoding; the dialog is only displayed if the

  source contains characters outside the locale's charset.  SF 710733 - Loewis

- Improved I/O response by tweaking the wait parameter in various

  calls to signal.signal().