It's what up arrow does in a terminal window when using shell or Python (with readline support enabled). The IDLE interactive session resembles this context more than it resembles an editable text window.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Bruce Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Pardon my obtuseness, but I don't understand what the issue is concerning > "up arrow moves cursor". The behavior of up arrow looks the same to me in > IDLE, Eclipse, Word, and Notepad++, though I don't use Emacs. > > Bruce Sherwood > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
