Re: idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Terry Reedy
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 wrote: 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 bee

Re: idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 12/02/2015 02:48, Rustom Mody wrote: [BTW I have some other feature requests too. Is this the best forum to talk of them? And thanks for your work on idle :-) ] Here is as good a place as any although there is an IDLE development mailing list at https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/i

Re: idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > 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 reasonable and > likely easy. (I would, however, not want the prompt when the buffer has not > been saved

Re: idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Rustom Mody
On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7:57:48 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/11/2015 1:00 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > On 11/02/2015 13:11, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> Context: > >> I am using idle for taking python classes. > > Teaching or taking? Teaching -- I would like to mail¹ students the i

Re: idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/11/2015 1:00 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 11/02/2015 13:11, Rustom Mody wrote: Context: I am using idle for taking python classes. Teaching or taking? Finish the class and run out usually in a hurry and forget to save the idle interaction window. Do you mean the shell window? Would l

Re: idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/02/2015 13:11, Rustom Mody wrote: Context: I am using idle for taking python classes. Finish the class and run out usually in a hurry and forget to save the idle interaction window. Would like to save it so that I can mail it to the students. In emacs I could set a hook to make arbitrary

Re: idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Fabien
On 11.02.2015 14:29, Rustom Mody wrote: So getting up and running with minimal headache is an important priority. Yes true. I consider Notebooks as a way to do "frontal" teaching, not necessarily usefull if students have to redo what you are doing on screen. For that, notebooks are rather pro

Re: idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Rustom Mody
On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 6:50:35 PM UTC+5:30, Fabien wrote: > On 11.02.2015 14:11, Rustom Mody wrote: > > Context: > > I am using idle for taking python classes. > > I know this is not your question, but: have you considered using iPython > notebooks for teaching? They save automaticall

Re: idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Fabien
On 11.02.2015 14:11, Rustom Mody wrote: Context: I am using idle for taking python classes. I know this is not your question, but: have you considered using iPython notebooks for teaching? They save automatically, look nice, and can be sent as code, html, rst, ... Fabien -- https://mail.py

idle feature request

2015-02-11 Thread Rustom Mody
Context: I am using idle for taking python classes. Finish the class and run out usually in a hurry and forget to save the idle interaction window. Would like to save it so that I can mail it to the students. In emacs I could set a hook to make arbitrary 'buffers' like the python-idle shell be