IDLE: populate Run Customized arguments with previous entry

[rhettinger]

BPO	37627
Nosy	@rhettinger, @terryjreedy, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-37627: Initialize IDLE Custom Run dialog with previous entries #14870 [3.8] bpo-37627: Initialize IDLE Custom Run dialog with previous entries (GH-14870) #14881 [3.7] bpo-37627: Initialize IDLE Custom Run dialog with previous entries (GH-14870) #14882 bpo-37627: Add acknowledgment #14883 [3.8] bpo-37627: Initialize IDLE Custom Run dialog with previous entries (GH-14870) #14893 [3.7] bpo-37627: Add acknowledgment (GH-14883) #14894 [3.8] bpo-37627: Add acknowledgment (GH-14883) #14895
Superseder	bpo-37748: IDLE: Re-order run menu

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GitHub fields:

assignee = 'https://github.com/terryjreedy'
closed_at = <Date 2019-08-03.04:52:50.737>
created_at = <Date 2019-07-19.07:26:51.012>
labels = ['3.8', 'expert-IDLE', 'type-feature', '3.7', '3.9']
title = 'IDLE: populate Run Customized arguments with previous entry'
updated_at = <Date 2019-08-03.04:52:50.736>
user = 'https://github.com/rhettinger'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2019-08-03.04:52:50.736>
actor = 'terry.reedy'
assignee = 'terry.reedy'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2019-08-03.04:52:50.737>
closer = 'terry.reedy'
components = ['IDLE']
creation = <Date 2019-07-19.07:26:51.012>
creator = 'rhettinger'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 37627
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 8.0
messages = ['348149', '348251', '348252', '348261', '348262', '348263', '348264', '348941']
nosy_count = 3.0
nosy_names = ['rhettinger', 'terry.reedy', 'miss-islington']
pr_nums = ['14870', '14881', '14882', '14883', '14893', '14894', '14895']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = '37748'
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue37627'
versions = ['Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8', 'Python 3.9']

[rhettinger]

Today, I did some user testing for the 3.8 beta when teaching the argparse module. The new "Run Customized" option needs two usability tweaks. 1) Move the menu option up by one so that the regular F5 "run" is last -- learners we having a hard time finding and mouse targeting the more commonly used regular "run" option. 2) The text input widget should be pre-populated with the most recently run command-line. This makes it easier to test variants of the same command rather retyping it on every invocation. Even more desirable would be to have a multi-command history, but in the absence of that an editable single command history would suffice.

[terryjreedy]

New changeset 35b87e6 by Terry Jan Reedy (Ngalim Siregar) in branch 'master':
bpo-37627: Initialize IDLE Custom Run dialog with previous entries (bpo-14870)
35b87e6

[miss-islington]

New changeset d9086f2 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
bpo-37627: Initialize IDLE Custom Run dialog with previous entries (GH-14870)
d9086f2

[miss-islington]

New changeset 9325f40 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8':
bpo-37627: Initialize IDLE Custom Run dialog with previous entries (GH-14870)
9325f40

[terryjreedy]

New changeset 4214f1e by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'master':
bpo-37627: Add acknowledgment (bpo-14883)
4214f1e

[miss-islington]

New changeset 849a37a by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
bpo-37627: Add acknowledgment (GH-14883)
849a37a

[miss-islington]

New changeset 52ee929 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8':
bpo-37627: Add acknowledgment (GH-14883)
52ee929

[terryjreedy]

This issues fixed item 2 above. Re-ordering the Run menu is bpo-37748