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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: idle feature request
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 02:17:14 -0500
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On 2/11/2015 9:48 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7:57:48 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrot=
e:

>> If one saves the shell with 'save as', the filename is added to the
>> title bar.  If one does something more, the name in bracketed with *s =
to
>> indicate the the memory buffer has been changed since it was last save=
d.
>>    This is the same as regular edit windows.
>>
>> However, when one quits, then, unlike a regular edit window, there is =
no
>> ask-to-save warning.  Is this what you want?  This would seem reasonab=
le
>> and likely easy.

The Shell window is a subclass of the (base) Editor window.  So=20
enhancement 1, invoke ask-to-save after save-as should be easy.  Find=20
the current code (grep the message) and determine why it does not work=20
for the shell.  Saving the shell is, I believe, rare, and I believe=20
there is half a chance that a person who has saved the shell once will=20
want to do so again.

>> (I would, however, not want the prompt when the buffer
>> has not been saved -- or this could be a configuration option.)

Enhancement 2 would be adding a configuration option to invoke=20
ask-to-save even without save-as.  I am sure that this would be harder.

> Yeah thats what I want.
> In a file-window there is 'ask-to-save' as soon as a single character i=
s typed.
> I want similar for shell window.
> As I said if there is a config option for that, thats best.
> But if I have to put in a few lines in my own idle that's fine too=C2=B2=
=2E

> [BTW I have some other feature requests too. Is this the best forum to =
talk of them? And thanks for your work on idle :-) ]

Idle-sig is pretty dead, so go ahead here.  You do not have to search=20
the tracker if you do not want to.  I have a categorized list of all=20
Idle issues on the tracker (with issue numbers) and will look up ideas
against that list anyway.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy