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>Original IDLE todo, much of it now outdated:
>============================================
>TO DO:
>
>- improve debugger:
>    - manage breakpoints globally, allow bp deletion, tbreak, cbreak etc.
>    - real object browser
>    - help on how to use it (a simple help button will do wonders)
>    - performance?  (updates of large sets of locals are slow)
>    - better integration of "debug module"
>    - debugger should be global resource (attached to flist, not to shell)
>    - fix the stupid bug where you need to step twice
>    - display class name in stack viewer entries for methods
>    - suppress tracing through IDLE internals (e.g. print) DONE
>    - add a button to suppress through a specific module or class or method
>    - more object inspection to stack viewer, e.g. to view all array items
>- insert the initial current directory into sys.path DONE
>- default directory attribute for each window instead of only for windows
>  that have an associated filename
>- command expansion from keywords, module contents, other buffers, etc.
>- "Recent documents" menu item DONE
>- Filter region command
>- Optional horizontal scroll bar
>- more Emacsisms:
>    - ^K should cut to buffer
>    - M-[, M-] to move by paragraphs
>    - incremental search?
>- search should indicate wrap-around in some way
>- restructure state sensitive code to avoid testing flags all the time
>- persistent user state (e.g. window and cursor positions, bindings)
>- make backups when saving
>- check file mtimes at various points
>- Pluggable interface with RCS/CVS/Perforce/Clearcase
>- better help?
>- don't open second class browser on same module (nor second path browser)
>- unify class and path browsers
>- Need to define a standard way whereby one can determine one is running
>  inside IDLE (needed for Tk mainloop, also handy for $PYTHONSTARTUP)
>- Add more utility methods for use by extensions (a la get_selection)
>- Way to run command in totally separate interpreter (fork+os.system?) DONE
>- Way to find definition of fully-qualified name:
>  In other words, select "UserDict.UserDict", hit some magic key and
>  it loads up UserDict.py and finds the first def or class for UserDict.
>- need a way to force colorization on/off
>- need a way to force auto-indent on/off
>
>Details:
>
>- ^O (on Unix -- open-line) should honor autoindent
>- after paste, show end of pasted text
>- on Windows, should turn short filename to long filename (not only in argv!)
>  (shouldn't this be done -- or undone -- by ntpath.normpath?)
>- new autoindent after colon even indents when the colon is in a comment!
>- sometimes forward slashes in pathname remain
>- sometimes star in window name remains in Windows menu
>- With unix bindings, ESC by itself is ignored
>- Sometimes for no apparent reason a selection from the cursor to the
>  end of the command buffer appears, which is hard to get rid of
>  because it stays when you are typing!
>- The Line/Col in the status bar can be wrong initially in PyShell DONE
>
>Structural problems:
>
>- too much knowledge in FileList about EditorWindow (for example)
>- should add some primitives for accessing the selection etc.
>  to repeat cumbersome code over and over
>
>======================================================================
>
>Jeff Bauer suggests:
>
>- Open Module doesn't appear to handle hierarchical packages.
>- Class browser should also allow hierarchical packages.
>- Open and Open Module could benefit from a history, DONE
>  either command line style, or Microsoft recent-file
>  style.
>- Add a Smalltalk-style inspector  (i.e. Tkinspect)
>
>The last suggestion is already a reality, but not yet
>integrated into IDLE.  I use a module called inspector.py,
>that used to be available from python.org(?)  It no longer
>appears to be in the contributed section, and the source
>has no author attribution.
>
>In any case, the code is useful for visually navigating
>an object's attributes, including its container hierarchy.
>
>    >>> from inspector import Tkinspect
>    >>> Tkinspect(None, myObject)
>
>Tkinspect could probably be extended and refined to
>integrate better into IDLE.
>
>======================================================================
>
>Comparison to PTUI
>------------------
>
>+ PTUI's help is better (HTML!)
>
>+ PTUI can attach a shell to any module
>
>+ PTUI has some more I/O commands:
>  open multiple
>  append
>  examine (what's that?)
>
>======================================================================
>
>Notes after trying to run Grail
>-------------------------------
>
>- Grail does stuff to sys.path based on sys.argv[0]; you must set
>sys.argv[0] to something decent first (it is normally set to the path of
>the idle script).
>
>- Grail must be exec'ed in __main__ because that's imported by some
>other parts of Grail.
>
>- Grail uses a module called History and so does idle :-(
>
>======================================================================
>
>Robin Friedrich's items:
>
>Things I'd like to see:
>    - I'd like support for shift-click extending the selection. There's a
>      bug now that it doesn't work the first time you try it.
>    - Printing is needed. How hard can that be on Windows? FIRST CUT DONE
>    - The python-mode trick of autoindenting a line with <tab> is neat and
>      very handy.
>    - (someday) a spellchecker for docstrings and comments.
>    - a pagedown/up command key which moves to next class/def statement (top
>      level)
>    - split window capability
>    - DnD text relocation/copying
>
>Things I don't want to see.
>    - line numbers...  will probably slow things down way too much.
>    - Please use another icon for the tree browser leaf. The small snake
>      isn't cutting it.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>- Customizable views (multi-window or multi-pane).  (Markus Gritsch)
>
>- Being able to double click (maybe double right click) on a callable
>object in the editor which shows the source of the object, if
>possible.  (Gerrit Holl)
>
>- Hooks into the guts, like in Emacs.  (Mike Romberg)
>
>- Sharing the editor with a remote tutor.  (Martijn Faassen)
>
>- Multiple views on the same file.  (Tony J Ibbs)
>
>- Store breakpoints in a global (per-project) database (GvR); Dirk
>Heise adds: save some space-trimmed context and search around when
>reopening a file that might have been edited by someone else.
>
>- Capture menu events in extensions without changing the IDLE source.
>(Matthias Barmeier)
>
>- Use overlapping panels (a "notebook" in MFC terms I think) for info
>that doesn't need to be accessible simultaneously (e.g. HTML source
>and output).  Use multi-pane windows for info that does need to be
>shown together (e.g. class browser and source).  (Albert Brandl)
>
>- A project should invisibly track all symbols, for instant search,
>replace and cross-ref.  Projects should be allowed to span multiple
>directories, hosts, etc.  Project management files are placed in a
>directory you specify.  A global mapping between project names and
>project directories should exist [not so sure --GvR].  (Tim Peters)
>
>- Merge attr-tips and auto-expand.  (Mark Hammond, Tim Peters)
>
>- Python Shell should behave more like a "shell window" as users know
>it -- i.e. you can only edit the current command, and the cursor can't
>escape from the command area.  (Albert Brandl)
>
>- Set X11 class to "idle/Idle", set icon and title to something
>beginning with "idle" -- for window manangers.  (Randall Hopper)
>
>- Config files editable through a preferences dialog.  (me) DONE
>
>- Config files still editable outside the preferences dialog.
>(Randall Hopper) DONE
>
>- When you're editing a command in PyShell, and there are only blank
>lines below the cursor, hitting Return should ignore or delete those
>blank lines rather than deciding you're not on the last line.  (me)
>
>- Run command (F5 c.s.) should be more like Pythonwin's Run -- a
>dialog with options to give command line arguments, run the debugger,
>etc.  (me)
>
>- Shouldn't be able to delete part of the prompt (or any text before
>it) in the PyShell.  (Martijn Faassen)   DONE
>
>- Emacs style auto-fill (also smart about comments and strings).
>(Jeremy Hylton)
>
>- Output of Run Script should go to a separate output window, not to
>the shell window.  Output of separate runs should all go to the same
>window but clearly delimited.  (David Scherer) REJECT FIRST, LATTER DONE
>
>- GUI form designer to kick VB's butt.  (Robert Geiger) THAT'S NOT IDLE
>
>- Printing!  Possibly via generation of PDF files which the user must
>then send to the printer separately.  (Dinu Gherman)  FIRST CUT

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