In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Russell E. Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to increase the font size inside IDLE. The documentation > > refers to an "Options menu" that seems to be eluding me in the Mac flavor of > > IDLE. Could someone please help me? > > When I run IDLE it has Preferences... under the IDLE menu. That's the > standard location and name for Mac prefs. The Fonts/Tabs panel has what > you're looking for. That said, it doesn't actually seem to work for me (I should have tried it before posting). I can set the font size, but I can't seem to make it stick. Clicking OK or Apply after making the change has no obvious effect; in fact OK doesn't even close the Preferences dialog box, which is not a good sign. That's with IDLE 2.5.2 on MacOS X 10.4.11. I also looked at ~/Library/Preferences/idle.plist (the only obvious prefs file I could find) but it only had a few entries and none were relevant to the font. Finally, I found the directory ~/.idlerc/ but none of the files in there look relevant. Maybe somebody knows where the prefs are stored or how to get them to work. I'm afraid I don't use IDLE myself. Another option is to use a normal text editor* You lose some interactivity but the powerful editing features may compensate by increasing productivity in other ways. Other IDEs that work on Mac include Eclipse (free but cluttered) and WingIDE (powerful but X11-based). -- Russell *I don't want to start an editor war, but commonly used options include: - TextWrangler: free, mature, robust, but clumsy find/replace - TextMate: powerful but has char-at-a-time undo - SubEthaEdit: nice but regex find is somewhat broken and no rectangular selection - Smultron: free, less powerful than TextWrangler but better find/replace - AquaEmacs: great for power users who aren't afraid of key stroke combinations I personally use Pepper, but it's no longer supported. I'm still looking for a modern replacement that I like as well. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
