Maybe this already exists but
I have never seen it in any
editor that I have used.

It would be nice to have a
pull-down text box that lists
all of the searches I have
used during this session. It
would make editing a lot
easier if I could select the
previous searches rather than
having to enter it every time.

If this is inappropriate to
post this here, please tell me
where to go.
Life should be so
complicated.....

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On 2023-12-12 08:22, Steve GS via Python-list wrote:

Maybe this already exists but
I have never seen it in any
editor that I have used.

It would be nice to have a
pull-down text box that lists
all of the searches I have
used during this session. It
would make editing a lot
easier if I could select the
previous searches rather than
having to enter it every time.

If this is inappropriate to
post this here, please tell me
where to go.
Life should be so
complicated.....

EditPad has this.

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On 2023-12-12 08:22, Steve GS via Python-list wrote:

Maybe this already exists but
I have never seen it in any
editor that I have used.

It would be nice to have a
pull-down text box that lists
all of the searches I have
used during this session. It
would make editing a lot
easier if I could select the
previous searches rather than
having to enter it every time.

If this is inappropriate to
post this here, please tell me
where to go.
Life should be so
complicated.....

EditPad has this.

So do Notepad++, EditPlus (not free but low cost, Windows only, and very
good), and I'm sure many others that are much simpler than Visual Studio
Code, for example.

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On 12/12/23 13:50, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:

On 2023-12-12 08:22, Steve GS via Python-list wrote:

Maybe this already exists but
I have never seen it in any
editor that I have used.

It would be nice to have a
pull-down text box that lists
all of the searches I have
used during this session. It
would make editing a lot
easier if I could select the
previous searches rather than
having to enter it every time.

If this is inappropriate to
post this here, please tell me
where to go.
Life should be so
complicated.....

EditPad has this.

So do Notepad++, EditPlus (not free but low cost, Windows only, and very good), and I'm sure many others that are much simpler than Visual Studio Code, for example.

Every now and then I pop up and suggest people look at Eric. Odd name
for an editor? Well, it continues the long pun history in the Python
world (Eric Idle... get it?). It has search history, among many other
things, I think once it was considered to be sort of IDLE++, but it's
grown to a lot more than that. Not saying Eric is better-than-XYZ-IDE,
but it is a cool project...

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Does anything from the Visual Studio family of software have a pull down menu that lists previous searches so that I don’t have to enter them every time?

SGA

-----Original Message-----
From: Friedrich Romstedt <friedrichromstedt@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 12:52 PM
To: Steve GS <Gronicus@sga.ninja>
Cc: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: IDLE editor suggestion.

Hi!

Am Di., 12. Dez. 2023 um 09:28 Uhr schrieb Steve GS via Python-list <python-list@python.org>:

Maybe this already exists but
I have never seen it in any
editor that I have used.

You might want to choose Microsoft Code from its Visual Studio family of software, or, if you're ready for a deep dive, you might try using vim. Personally I am using both.

HTH,
Friedrich

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On 2023-12-13 01:28, Steve GS via Python-list wrote:

Does anything from the Visual Studio family of software have a pull down menu that lists previous searches so that I don’t have to enter them every time?

SGA

Visual Studio search box has a dropdown list that's shown when you press
the down arrow key.

-----Original Message-----
From: Friedrich Romstedt <friedrichromstedt@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 12:52 PM
To: Steve GS <Gronicus@sga.ninja>
Cc: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: IDLE editor suggestion.

Hi!

Am Di., 12. Dez. 2023 um 09:28 Uhr schrieb Steve GS via Python-list <python-list@python.org>:

Maybe this already exists but
I have never seen it in any
editor that I have used.

You might want to choose Microsoft Code from its Visual Studio family of software, or, if you're ready for a deep dive, you might try using vim. Personally I am using both.

HTH,
Friedrich

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"Steve GS" <Gronicus@SGA.Ninja> writes:

It would be nice to have a
pull-down text box that lists

You can *modify* IDLE so as to adapt it to your needs.

To find the source code of IDLE, search for

pyshell.py

on your file system. The IDLE source files should be in the directory
of that file.

Here are two examples for possible modifications to IDLE:

When you want to run a new program you just typed into the
editor, it asks you for a filename. What a distraction!
To have a filename auto-generated for you, modify the definition
of the function "getfilename" in the file "runscript.py" of IDLE.

When you save your source code, IDLE does not write a backup
copy into an archive directory, so that you will lose the
current version if you modify it later. To have a backup
written for every version saved, modify the definition of
the function "writefile" in the IDLE source file "iomenu.py".

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"Steve GS" <Gronicus@SGA.Ninja> writes:

It would be nice to have a
pull-down text box that lists
all of the searches

I tried to get such a box by changing the file "searchbase.py"
of the IDLE source code adding ", Combobox" to the line

from tkinter.ttk import Frame, Entry, Label, Button, Checkbutton, Radiobutton

and replacing

Entry(self.frame, textvariable=var, exportselection=0)

by

Combobox( self.frame, textvariable=var, exportselection=0,
values=[ 'alpha', 'beta', 'gamma' ])

. However, when I try it out, it seems to work for some time, but
then IDLE freezes when trying to open a new search box.

(If this problem could be solved, one would still need to add
some more code to add to the search strings to the value list.)

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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

(If this problem could be solved, one would still need to add
some more code to add to the search strings to the value list.)

The program still freezes/crashes here, but maybe this has to do
with special circumstance of my personal Python installation.

That being said, here's what makes the OP's suggestion work:

In the IDLE source file "searchbase.py", replace the two occurences
of "Entry" by "Combobox".

In the file "search.py", in the definition of "default_command",
before the line "if not self.engine.getprog():", insert
(adding indentation as required by the context):

combobox = self.ent
if type( combobox[ 'values' ])!= type( () ):
combobox[ 'values' ]=( combobox.get(), )
else:
combobox[ 'values' ]=( combobox.get(), )+ combobox[ 'values' ]

.

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