Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:

Adding functions to builtins (2 of Marco's 8 #38747 ideas) should be separate 
from patching the repl code.  I agree that the latter should not be done 
piecemeal.  I previous wrote that we need a pydev REPL enhancement policy 
discussion *first* and explicitly asked Marco "please don't rush to immediately 
open 8 new issues."  

I do think that if there were an *approved* set of new features, several 
patches would be best, but that is moot at present.

IDLE already has this feature, and most of the other enhancements Marco wants. 
(msg363325) The key for this one is that tcl/tk does not trigger <Key> events 
when inserting pasted code, so only a keyed newline triggers IDLE's user code 
processing.  But other IDLE features are much harder, and I suspect that this 
would also be in the Windows console.

In msg356327, Eric Sun, one of our best Windows experts, outlined the major 
difficulties of changing things on Windows' console.  He only said something 
half-way encouraging about autoindent but otherwise thought that a working 
stdlib Windows readline extension would be needed.

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