1. Restore the capability to run and debug without a subprocess.
2. Add an indicator to the shell startup notice when running w/o
subprocess.
3. Improve exception reporting when running a command or script from the
command line.
4. Clarify the fact that breakpoints set or cleared after a file is
saved will revert to the saved state if the file is closed without
re-saving.
5. If user tries to exit or restart when user code is running, interrupt
the user code. This helps to eliminate occasional hanging
subprocesses on Windows (except for Freddy :).
M NEWS.txt
M PyShell.py
M ScriptBinding.py
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index ba0307e..d24c34b9 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,22 @@
*Release date: XX-XXX-2003*
+- Interrupt the subprocess if it is running when the user attempts to
+ restart the shell, run a module, or exit.
+
+- Improved exception reporting when running commands or scripts from the
+ command line.
+
+- Added a comment to the shell startup header to indicate when IDLE is not
+ using the subprocess. (For now, set PyShell.use_subprocess to False to run
+ in this mode.)
+
+- Restore the ability to run without the subprocess. This can be important for
+ some platforms or configurations. (Running without the subprocess allows the
+ debugger to trace through parts of IDLE itself, which may or may not be
+ desirable, depending on your point of view. In addition, the traditional
+ reload/import tricks must be use if user source code is changed.)
+
- Improve the error message a user gets when saving a file with non-ASCII
characters and no source encoding is specified. Done by adding a dialog
'EncodingMessage', which contains the line to add in a fixed-font entry