[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: #1529353 added squeezer, making this alternative unnecessary. Once squeezed, output can be opened in a text viewer. -- resolution: -> out of date stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> Squeezer - squeeze large output

[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

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[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

Tomić Milan added the comment: I have just installed IDLEX-1.12 on Python3.4. Once I open the Documentation Viewer the docstrings are written to the terminal window instead to the Documentation Viewer which remains empty. They are triggered correctly once I type the opening bracket of the func

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[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

Roger Serwy added the comment: The attached patch ("issue13659.patch") adds a configuration option for selecting the output of help() as being in the shell or in the pager. It is an enhancement against 3.4. Another possibility involves adding a checkable menu item under "Options" or "Help" to

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[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

Roger Serwy added the comment: Attached is an initial diff for creating a separate pager window by using a textView widget. The recently applied patch in issue964437 allows this window to be non-modal, which can be useful for interactive development. The diff contains code to allow the pager

[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I don't think adding a "browser" arg to help() is a good idea. The original suggestion of having the help in a separate window and adding a checkbox in the options to (de)activate the feature sounds good to me (it could even allow to select between normal/new wi

[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I would like that to be a help() option, such as help(module, -b) or more verbosely, help(module, browser=True). This would be useful for the regular interactive interpreter as well. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

Ron Adam added the comment: What about having idle open a web browser session with pydocs new browse option? python3 -m pydoc -b We've added input fields to the pages that take the same input as help() command does. It also links to the online help pages, and you can view the source code of

[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I should like it if a separate window were either automatic or a configuration option for help on modules and classes, which should cover 'long' output. The Windows workaround, which I will never remember, brings up an extraneous cmd.exe window in addition t

[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

Roger Serwy added the comment: If you're on Linux, run this as your first command in IDLE: import pydoc; pydoc.pager = lambda text: pydoc.tempfilepager(pydoc.plain(text), 'xterm -e less') If Windows: import pydoc; pydoc.pager = lambda text: pydoc.tempfilepager(pydoc.plain(text), 'n

[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

maniram maniram added the comment: Sorry, new window in "I suggest a new window" should be a new read-only editor window. It could be implemented through a wrapper around help. IDLE could have a configuration option whether to use the traditional help() or the new help() which opens a new wind

[issue13659] Add a help() viewer for IDLE's Shell.

New submission from maniram maniram : If you call help() a few times on some objects, due to help()'s output IDLE's Shell Window becomes very long and it becomes difficult to scroll through the window. I suggest a new window should be opened when help() is called in IDLE so that no help outpu