Skip to content

bpo-34162: Update idlelib NEWS to 2018-12-05 #10964

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Dec 6, 2018
Merged

bpo-34162: Update idlelib NEWS to 2018-12-05 #10964

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
32 changes: 32 additions & 0 deletions Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -3,6 +3,38 @@ Released on 2019-10-20?
======================================


bpo-35213: Where appropriate, use 'macOS' in idlelib.

bpo-34864: Document two IDLE on MacOS issues. The System Preferences
Dock "prefer tabs always" setting disables some IDLE features.
Menus are a bit different than as described for Windows and Linux.

bpo-35202: Remove unused imports in idlelib.

bpo-33000: Document that IDLE's shell has no line limit.
A program that runs indefinitely can overfill memory.

bpo-23220: Explain how IDLE's Shell displays output.
Add new subsection "User output in Shell".

bpo-35099: Improve the doc about IDLE running user code.
"IDLE -- console differences" is renamed "Running user code".
It mostly covers the implications of using custom sys.stdxxx objects.

bpo-35097: Add IDLE doc subsection explaining editor windows.
Topics include opening, title and status bars, .py* extension, and running.

Issue 35093: Document the IDLE document viewer in the IDLE doc.
Add a paragraph in "Help and preferences", "Help sources" subsection.

bpo-1529353: Explain Shell text squeezing in the IDLE doc.

bpo-35088: Update idlelib.help.copy_string docstring.
We now use git and backporting instead of hg and forward merging.

bpo-35087: Update idlelib help files for the current doc build.
The main change is the elimination of chapter-section numbers.

bpo-1529353: Output over N lines (50 by default) is squeezed down to a button.
N can be changed in the PyShell section of the General page of the
Settings dialog. Fewer, but possibly extra long, lines can be squeezed by
Expand Down