Being a bit of an old fart, I much prefer to do my text editing on a dark background. I find the paper-emulation paradigm an interesting idea but lacking in ergonomic value.
With a bit of jiggering I was able to get the 2.5 version of IDLE to work the way I want, namely a black background with text in various colours. I can ALMOST do the same thing with the IDLE that comes with python 3 except that the window background remains steadfastly white. So I see colour on black for all the portions of the screen where text appears, but the blank areas (end of line to right margin) are white. Has anyone else encountered such a problem or am I the only one to even try it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
