7stud wrote: > On Apr 13, 10:27 am, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 7stud wrote: >>> Hi, >>> In the IDLE, I can't get most shortcut keys that are listed next to >>> the menu items to work.  For instance, under the Format menu item only >>> the shortcuts for "indent region" and "undent region" work.  If I >>> highlight some text and use Shift+3 to comment out the region I >>> highlighted, the code is erased and I get the # symbol.  When I use >>> the option(alt key) and type a character, I get things like this: >>> ƒ,¢,º,˚ >>> I looked under Options/Configure IDLE/Keys and tried the various built >>> in key sets, and none seem to work. >>> I also can't use my mouse to copy(or cut) and paste.  When I highlight >>> something and right click(in an attempt to bring up the context menu >>> that has copy, cut, paste, etc.), the text that is highlighted is >>> doubled when I right click, e.g.: >>>    some text >>> becomes: >>>    some textsome text >>> And, sometimes when I try to highlight a line, the line 7 lines below >>> the cursor gets highlighted. >>> intel mac, os 10.4.7, python 2.4.4 >> IDLE under 2.5 has been much improved on the Mac; all the standard Mac >> keyboard shortcuts are supported, and in general it's more stable. With >> 2.5, IDLE replaces the old PythonIDE that used to ship with MacPython. >> Can you update to 2.5? >> >> -- >> Kevin Walzer >> Code by Kevinhttp://www.codebykevin.com > > Thanks for the info. I just updated to 2.4.4 because the download > said there were more packages for the mac than with 2.5. I think I'll > probably just stick to vim for an editor. > You realize that packages are trivial to build for 2.5, assuming you have the developer tools installed? Usually it's sudo easy_install foo (if you have setuptools installed) or sudo python setup.py.
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