On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > import tkinter as tk > root = tk.Tk() > text = tk.Text() > text.pack() > root.mainloop() > > I tested tested the functions and wrote the following. > > This is a test text entry. > Enter and Tab work as expected. > The Arrow (Cursor) keys work as expected. > CntL-Left and Cntl-Right move a word at time. > Home and End move to beginning and end of the line. > Cntl-Home and Cntl-Up move to the beginning of the text. > Cntl-End and Cntl-Donw move to the end of the text. > Shift + cursor movement selects between the begin and end slice positions. > PageUp and PageDown are inoperative. > Delete and Backspace work as expected. > At least on Windows, I can select text and delete, > or cut or copy to Clipboard. > I can also paste from the clipboard. > In otherwords, this is a functional minimal text entry widget.
Err, that's not all it takes to run an editor :) File opening and saving would be kinda helpful, for a start... But that's what I meant when I said that a multi-line entry field is an extremely standard widget. (I'm a bit surprised that PgUp/PgDn don't work, but the rest of what you say is perfectly standard.) It's a bit harder to do an editor that doesn't just call on a GUI, and more importantly, "tk.Text().pack()" does not make the world's best editor. But it sure is handy when you want to embed an editor in something else! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
