From 5b5c0f557ecba5d840325eb491c7f46033c7c50f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:48:53 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-48146: Update IDLE part of What's New 3.10 to 2022 (GH-30906) (cherry picked from commit 4a49fa6ca66664383d406dbf6f6c28289ffeeeaa) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy --- Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst index c07523c49163bf..6edc09ff6cef6d 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst @@ -1137,10 +1137,18 @@ IDLE and idlelib ---------------- 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 @@ -1153,12 +1161,9 @@ in :issue:`37903`.) 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 ` :keyword:`match`, :keyword:`case `, and :keyword:`_ ` in pattern-matching statements. However, this highlighting is not perfect