Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Your report is a bit vague. Idle is supposed to only open a file once in a
particular Idle process. If you have seen otherwise (but see below first),
please complete the report: OS, exact Python version (x.y.z), exactly what you
did.
If you right-clicked in
irdb added the comment:
Yes, I am right-clicking the file through Windows Explorer as in some
situations it seems much faster. (Opening through IDLE's file menu in a
particular process works fine)
If this is supposed to be so please close the issue. Although I don't
understand why one would
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Notepad++, for instance (which I use), has one version installed, multiple
panes, and only allows one instance to run. It matches Idle in only allowing a
file to be opened in one process, which happens to be the only process.
Idle, by contrast, can have
Changes by irdb dalba.w...@gmail.com:
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title: IDLE should should not open multiple instances of one file - IDLE
should not open multiple instances of one file
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