Issue 1196903: smarter behaviour for home key in IDLE (original) (raw)

Issue1196903

Created on 2005-05-06 21:33 by jshute, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg48304 - (view)	Author: Jeff Shute (jshute)	Date: 2005-05-06 21:33
This patch modifies IDLE to have behaviour similar to other IDEs when you press home. Pressing ones takes you to the start of text on the line (skipping whitespace or the prompt characters). Pressing home again toggles between that position and the absolute start of the line. There was already some code in PyShell.py that attempted to do part of this for the prompt characters, but it did not work.
msg48305 - (view)	Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) *	Date: 2005-07-15 09:17
Logged In: YES user_id=80475 Hmm, the toggling part is not that common or intuitive.
msg65903 - (view)	Author: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) *	Date: 2008-04-27 21:08
The toggling is useful when ending a def. If other IDEs have this binding, I can't see a problem. I've been running the patch for awhile now, and notice that Ctrl-A also has this new action now. It seems useful, let's give it a try. r62546