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bpo-48146: Update IDLE part of What's New 3.10 to 2022 (GH-30906)
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terryjreedy committed Jan 26, 2022
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Make IDLE invoke :func:`sys.excepthook` (when started without '-n').
User hooks were previously ignored. (Patch by Ken Hilton in
User hooks were previously ignored. (Contributed by Ken Hilton in
:issue:`43008`.)
This change was backported to a 3.9 maintenance release.
Rearrange the settings dialog. Split the General tab into Windows
and Shell/Ed tabs. Move help sources, which extend the Help menu, to the
Extensions tab. Make space for new options and shorten the dialog. The
latter makes the dialog better fit small screens. (Contributed by Terry Jan
Reedy in :issue:`40468`.) Move the indent space setting from the Font tab to
the new Windows tab. (Contributed by Mark Roseman and Terry Jan Reedy in
:issue:`33962`.)
These changes were backported to a 3.9 maintenance release.
Add a Shell sidebar. Move the primary prompt ('>>>') to the sidebar.
Add secondary prompts ('...') to the sidebar. Left click and optional
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Use spaces instead of tabs to indent interactive code. This makes
interactive code entries 'look right'. Making this feasible was a
major motivation for adding the shell sidebar. Contributed by
major motivation for adding the shell sidebar. (Contributed by
Terry Jan Reedy in :issue:`37892`.)
We expect to backport these shell changes to a future 3.9 maintenance
release.
Highlight the new :ref:`soft keywords <soft-keywords>` :keyword:`match`,
:keyword:`case <match>`, and :keyword:`_ <wildcard-patterns>` in
pattern-matching statements. However, this highlighting is not perfect
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