[issue21140] Idle: saving an OutputWindow should default to .txt

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Raymond, I open #21152 with your idea. #11838 and #19042 are somewhat related but timed autosave is not a part of either. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue21140] Idle: saving an OutputWindow should default to .txt

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: FWIW, students commonly save shell sessions as a record of everything they tried in call. It would nice if there were a way to trigger a periodic autosave (perhaps every five minutes or so). -- nosy: +rhettinger ___

[issue21140] Idle: saving an OutputWindow should default to .txt

Changes by Saimadhav Heblikar : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34714/issue21140-34.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue21140] Idle: saving an OutputWindow should default to .txt

Saimadhav Heblikar added the comment: Attaching a patch. The file type on OutputWIndow defaults to .txt. Can be very easily made to default to none aswell. Tested on linux for 2.7 and 3.4.(Debian Wheezy, Gnome 3) On 2.7, made changes so that ispythonsource(in EditorWindow) behaves similar to

[issue21140] Idle: saving an OutputWindow should default to .txt

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[issue21140] Idle: saving an OutputWindow should default to .txt

New submission from Terry J. Reedy: If possible, when saving an instance of an OutputWindow, the file type should default to .txt (or possibly even nothing) instead of .py. At present, OutputWindows are only used for Find in Files (grep) output, which is very much not Python code. The same sho