Re: IDLE Restoration

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Date	Sat, 9 May 2015 08:52:30 +1000
Subject	Re: IDLE Restoration
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On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> […] Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn […] wrote:
>>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>> Are you hoping to have the IDLE editor restore the fact that you had
>>>> files X, Y, and Z open, or are you hoping to have the interactive
>>>> interpreter retain your entire history of commands and their results?
>>>> The former is reasonably plausible (and may well be possible already -
>>>> Terry?), but the latter is quite impractical.
>>>
>>> Various shells do the latter.  I do not see why that would be
>>> impractical, on the contrary.
>>
>> Exactly what do they recall?
>
> “your entire history of commands” and
>
>> A textual form of the scrollback?

Okay. I'm not sure how useful a text-only scrollback would be in IDLE,
if you start with a clean slate. But I'll let the OP decide on whether
that's a worthwhile feature request.

ChrisA

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IDLE Restoration subhabrata.banerji@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 08:26 -0700
  Re: IDLE Restoration Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 01:35 +1000
    Re: IDLE Restoration Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-08 18:06 +0200
      Re: IDLE Restoration Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 02:16 +1000
        Re: IDLE Restoration Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-08 21:12 +0200
          Re: IDLE Restoration Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 08:52 +1000
  Re: IDLE Restoration Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-08 20:24 -0400

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