Thanks for the reply. If a patch is relatively straight forward I would be definitely interested. (time is fairly important). I was thinking of hacking it by changing the config file before I ran idle, but something more elegant would be great :) Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tal Einat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Guse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [Idle-dev] open idle edit window only? > On 7/20/07, Paul Guse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Is there a way to open just the edit window (without the run window) from >> the commandline? >> I can go into the idle configuration and change the "At Startup" option >> to >> "Open Edit Window" and this does what I'm looking for, but I need to be >> able >> to do this without manually going into idle and changing it. >> I need to be able to control this through the commandline (or equivalent) >> without making the user set up the options manually. >> Any suggestions? >> Thanks. > > Unfortunately, no. As long as the "At Startup" option in the > configuration dialog is set to "Open Shell Window", a shell window > will always be opened. > > I agree that there should be a command-line option to explicitly not > open a shell window. I'll post a feature request to SourceForge. > > If you want this quickly, I can work up a quick patch for you. > > - Tal > _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
