In article <ec96e1391001040805j13b4e5cet3f1b74e9a81ed...@mail.gmail.com>, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > > ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? > > > > Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? > > > > For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools, > > someone decided that proportional spaced fonts ought to be the > > default for IDLE. > Mac Applications don't have "options" menus. They have a "preferences" > pane which is the second item in the application menu (the one that > takes the name of the active program) and has a keyboard shortcut of > Cmd-, > > Apple's user-interface guidelines are pretty specific, so you'll find > that this works for all native OS X (i.e. not X11) applications. But be aware that IDLE on OS X has had various problems with missing and/or duplicate menu items. IIRC, the current python.org OS X IDLEs (2.6.4 and 3.1.1) should be OK and you can modify the font via the Preferences menu (and currently changed preferences apply to all versions of IDLE). Note also that there are two different ways to launch the OS X IDLE. python.org installers put a double-clickable IDLE.app in /Applications/Python n.x. There is also a command-line "idlen.n" in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/n.n/bin which, optionally, has a symlink from /usr/local/bin. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
