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Feature Request] IDLE Shell

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Tue Apr 12 22:04:53 EDT 2011 
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:50 AM, rantingrick <rantingrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the IDLE shell when pressing the key combos "Control+Up" and
> "Control+Down" the insertion cursor should jump to the nearest prompt
> (>>>) above or below it's current position respectively.
>
> Note: In the Editor Window of IDLE the current behavior is for the
> insertion cursor to jump to the next block (which is just fine for the
> Editing Source code!) HOWEVER in the shell we need a much more
> intelligent behavior.

Not to be rude or anything - but why can't you get the latest IDLE
source code, patch it, test it, see how you like it and if you feel
it useful, share the patch and/or file a bug with the patch.

cheers
James

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