On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<pointede...@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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