Re: How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Ned Deily
In article <0d70cb54-3d77-4176-b621-e764ecf61...@26g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>, Mensanator wrote: > I assume I've been using the IDLE from macports. From the command > prompt I've > been typing "idle". This launches a "shell" window which appears to > have an X11 > parent application for which th

Re: How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Mensanator
On Jan 4, 9:17 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote: > * Mensanator: > > > ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? > > > Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? > > > For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools, > > someone decided that proport

Re: How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Mensanator
On Jan 4, 10:44 pm, Mensanator wrote: > On Jan 4, 10:05 am, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mensanator wrote: > > > ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? > > > > Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? > > > > For some inscrutab

Re: How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Mensanator
On Jan 4, 2:25 pm, Ned Deily wrote: > In article > , >  Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mensanator wrote: > > > ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? > > > > Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? > > > > For some inscrutable r

Re: How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Mensanator
On Jan 4, 10:05 am, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mensanator wrote: > > ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? > > > Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? > > > For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools,

Re: How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mensanator wrote: > > ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? > > > > Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? > > > > For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools,

Re: How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Steve Holden
Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Mensanator: >> ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? >> >> Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? >> >> For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools, >> someone decided that proportional spaced fonts ought t

Re: How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mensanator wrote: > ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? > > Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? > > For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools, > someone decided that proportional spaced fonts ou

Re: How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* Mensanator: ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools, someone decided that proportional spaced fonts ought to be the default for IDLE. Why not jus

How do you configure IDLE on a Mac, seeing as there's no Configure Option...

2010-01-04 Thread Mensanator
...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools, someone decided that proportional spaced fonts ought to be the default for IDLE. -- http://mail.python.org/ma