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- [See end for tips.]
-
- Click on the dotted line at the top of a menu to "tear it off": a
- separate window containing the menu is created.
-
- File menu:
- (This should speak for itself.)
-
- Edit menu:
-
- Undo -- Undo last change to current window (max 1000 changes)
- Redo -- Redo last undone change to current window
- ---
- Cut -- Copy selection into system-wide clipboard; then delete selection
- Copy -- Copy selection into system-wide clipboard
- Paste -- Insert system-wide clipboard into window
- Select All -- Select the entire contents of the edit buffer
- ---
- Find... -- Open a search dialog box with many options
- Find again -- Repeat last search
- Find selection -- Search for the string in the selection
- Find in Files... -- Open a search dialog box for searching files
- Replace... -- Open a search-and-replace dialog box
- Go to line -- Ask for a line number and show that line
- ---
- Indent region -- Shift selected lines right 4 spaces
- Dedent region -- Shift selected lines left 4 spaces
- Comment out region -- Insert ## in front of selected lines
- Uncomment region -- Remove leading # or ## from selected lines
- Tabify region -- Turns *leading* stretches of spaces into tabs
- Untabify region -- Turn *all* tabs into the right number of spaces
- Expand word -- Expand the word you have typed to match another
- word in the same buffer; repeat to get a different expansion
- Format Paragraph -- Reformat the current blank-line-separated paragraph
- ---
- Run module -- Import or reload the current module
- Debug module -- Ditto, under debugger control
-
- Windows menu:
-
- Zoom Height -- toggles the window between normal size (24x80)
- and maximum height.
- ---
- The rest of this menu lists the names of all open windows;
- select one to bring it to the foreground (deiconifying it if
- necessary).
-
- Debug menu (in the Python Shell window only):
-
- Go to file/line -- look around the insert point for a filename
- and linenumber, open the file, and show the line
- Open stack viewer -- show the stack traceback of the last exception
- Debugger toggle -- Run commands in the shell under the debugger
- JIT Stack viewer toggle -- Open stack viewer on traceback
-
- Basic editing and navigation:
-
- Backspace deletes to the left; DEL deletes to the right
- Arrow keys and Page Up/Down to move around
- Home/End go to begin/end of line
- Control-Home/End go to begin/end of file
- Some Emacs bindings may also work, e.g. ^B/^P/^A/^E/^D/^L
-
- Automatic indentation:
-
- After a block-opening statement, the next line is indented by
- 4 spaces (in the Python Shell window by one tab). In leading
- indentation, Backspace deletes 4 spaces if they are there.
- Also see the indent/dedent region commands.
-
- Python Shell window:
-
- ^C interrupts executing command
- ^D sends end-of-file; closes window if typed at >>> prompt
-
- Command history:
-
- Alt-p retrieves previous command matching what you have typed
- Alt-n retrieves next
- Return while on any previous command retrieves that command
- Alt-/ (Expand word) is also useful here
-
- Python syntax colors: the coloring is applied in the background.
-
- Keywords orange
- Strings green
- Comments red
- Definitions blue
-
- Shell colors:
-
- Console output brown
- stdout blue
- stderr dark green
- stdin black
-
- Tips:
- To change the font on Windows, open EditorWindow.py and change
- text['font'] = ("verdana", 8)
- to, e.g.,
- text['font'] = ("courier new", 10)
-
- To change the Python syntax colors, edit the tagdefs table in
- ColorDelegator.py; to change the shell colors, edit the tagdefs
- table in PyShell.py.
-