[Python-Dev] IDLE patches - bugfix or not? (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 18:39:47 CEST 2006

> python.org/sf/1540874 -- broken shortcut keys. On windows, only one > entry per menu can be reached with the same shortcut letter, so > advertising others is just an attractive nuisance. I'm not sure that > other systems wouldn't be able to use the hidden shortcuts.

On 8/15/06, Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:

Tough call. I guess it depends on the other systems - I will try this on Linux at least, and see if it works there. If it's broken everywhere, then changing it would seem the least offensive choice.

Thank you.

Kurt Kaiser:

I would have been inclined to make the other choice, i.e. 'p' as the hotkey for print, rather than the rarely used "save copy as".

The existing functionality (at least on windows) is that p brings up a Path Browser window; print and save copy are both masked. I agree that p should be for print, but I didn't want to remove an existing (working) shortcut this late.

So I just stopped advertising the (unusable) shortcut on print. I did add the (currently unused) 'y' for "save copy as", which I suppose might be considered a feature. Simply removing the claimed but broken shortcut would indeed fix the attractive nuisance problem.

-jJ

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