Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Two negative factors.
1. Users may edit the user config files 'by hand'. They occasionally must edit them to fix problems. Burying them in a *hidden* directory (invisible in Explorer) will make editing much harder, *especially for beginners*. Even as a long-time Windows user, I only recently learned how to access %APPDATA% in Win 7, by fiddling with the entry bar the right way and adding exactly 'AppDate\' to the existing path, displayed as a path. I am pretty sure this is different than with XP. I imagine this has changed again in Win 8 and Win 10. I really do not want to have to explain the Win version specific details when someone asks how to fix a problem here, python-list, or stackoverflow. I doubt either of you want to either. 2. The one .idlerc directory is used for all currently installed python versions. When one installs a new version, such as the upcoming 3.5.0, the custom font and size, custom keybindings, and anything else, are just there. We cannot magically go back and change all existing installations. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24765> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
