On Jan 4, 10:05 am, 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. > > -- > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > Mac Applications don't have "options" menus. They have a "preferences" > pane which is the second item in the application menu
Sometimes it's the second item, sometimes it's not > (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. Right, it doesn't apply to IDLE which uses X11 (there is a preferences window, but it doesn't have any font control, unlike stuff like Safari). I assume there must be a configuration file. Any idea what that file is called? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list