Issue 17060: IDLE -- jump to home should not go past the PS1 and PS2 prompts (original) (raw)

Issue17060

Created on 2013-01-28 09:17 by rhettinger, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg180841 - (view)	Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) *	Date: 2013-01-28 09:17
In IDLE's shell, pressing or currently jumps to the beginning of a line. Instead it should stop *after* the ">>> " prompt.
msg181155 - (view)	Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) *	Date: 2013-02-02 09:53
On my Win 7 system, with 3.3.0, the first Home sends the cursor to the beginning of the user entry, after '>>> '. The second sends it to the beginning of the display line. And so forth, as intended. See #3851. (It worked the same with Win xp and 3.1) If are getting different behavior, what os and py versions?
msg185883 - (view)	Author: Roger Serwy (roger.serwy) *	Date: 2013-04-03 04:07
When using the IDLE Classic OSX key set, the "beginning-of-line" virtual event gets bound to . Using this key set I can repeat the behavior that Raymond observed. The .home_callback() in Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py contains the logic from #3851 for placing the cursor at the beginning of the prompt, but it requires that a key combination be bound to the beginning-of-line virtual event. Should we append " " to the begining-of-line config in Lib/idlelib/config-keys.def ?
msg296373 - (view)	Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) *	Date: 2017-06-19 20:45
I am closing this instead of #18444 because the latter has more extensive discussion.