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@taleinat taleinat commented Aug 5, 2019 •
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Note that the text viewing windows are non-modal, which allows keeping them open while continuing to work in the shell.

https://bugs.python.org/issue37768

@taleinat taleinat added type-feature A feature request or enhancement needs backport to 3.7 labels Aug 5, 2019
@taleinat taleinat requested a review from terryjreedy August 5, 2019 21:03
@taleinat taleinat force-pushed the bpo-37768/idle-help-in-text-viewer branch from 4dd7f70 to 471dcca Compare August 31, 2019 11:10
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@terryjreedy, this is a small, relatively simple code change providing a significant UX improvement; I'd love to get this into 3.8. Pending your review!

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I've merged the latest main branch into this PR.

It is still missing a configuration option for disabling this feature or setting a minimum number of help text lines for triggering it, as requested by @terryjreedy on the bpo issue.

@taleinat taleinat added needs backport to 3.9 only security fixes needs backport to 3.10 only security fixes labels May 31, 2021
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ambv commented May 17, 2022

This missed the boat for inclusion in Python 3.9 which accepts security fixes only as of today.

@serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka added the needs backport to 3.11 only security fixes label May 20, 2022
@hauntsaninja hauntsaninja changed the title bpo-37768: IDLE: show help(object) output in a text viewing window gh-81949: IDLE: show help(object) output in a text viewing window Jan 7, 2023
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