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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list