[issue19042] Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window

2016-11-02 Thread perilbrain
perilbrain added the comment: I have signed the CA. Meantime a came across one more problem in function tabnanny(encoding issue) so I am attaching the new version of ScriptBinding.py. Summary:- def tabnanny(self, source, encoding = None): # XXX: tabnanny should work on binary

[issue19042] Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window

2016-11-02 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Looks promising. The second half of a patch would be to fill in the missing lines. Before I review, please sign a CA. The online form at https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/ takes about 5 minutes. --

[issue19042] Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window

2016-11-02 Thread perilbrain
perilbrain added the comment: "To run without saving" was the first idea I got, but it was difficult to pursue in first phase. After your hints I think I have achieved what you have described. I have done a few fixes(luckily in a single file ScriptBinding.py) which are giving satisfactory

[issue19042] Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window

2016-11-01 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Duplicate #28581 has a autosave patch in the initial post, which points out that "We are often required to copy code from various sites say some tutorial or code samples which are good for one time usage." It prompted me to think more about the idea to 'add a

[issue19042] Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window

2016-02-09 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: #1326830 ('python scratchpad', rejected) was about same issue, though less specific about the implementation. A different solution to the multiline statement problem would be to separate Shell into the read-only history (with prompts in a sidebar, so normal 4

[issue19042] Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window

2015-05-01 Thread irdb
Changes by irdb dalba.w...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +irdb ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19042 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue19042] Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window

2013-09-17 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy: The General tab of the IDLE Preferences dialog has this section with two radiobuttons: Autosave Preferences At Start of Run (F5) () Prompt to Save () No Prompt The latter option actually means No prompt unless the window is a new window ('Untitled')

[issue19042] Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window

2013-09-17 Thread Bruce Sherwood
Bruce Sherwood added the comment: Very nice, Terry. Good point about positive vs. negative specifications. I think maybe your Prompt to Save versus Autosave is the best scheme, because one is specifying whether or not to do something active (namely, put up a save dialog). -- nosy: