bpo-37903: IDLE: add shell sidebar mouse interactions (GH-25708)
Left click and drag to select lines. With selection, right click for context menu with copy and copy-with-prompts.
Also add copy-with-prompts to the text-box context menu.
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 83afe3e..ed11426 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,15 @@
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-bpo-37892: Change Shell input indents from tabs to spaces.
+bpo-37903: Add mouse actions to the shell sidebar. Left click and
+optional drag selects one or more lines of text, as with the
+editor line number sidebar. Right click after selecting text lines
+displays a context menu with 'copy with prompts'. This zips together
+prompts from the sidebar with lines from the selected text. This option
+also appears on the context menu for the text.
+
+bpo-37892: Change Shell input indents from tabs to spaces. Shell input
+now 'looks right'. Making this feasible motivated the shell sidebar.
bpo-37903: Move the Shell input prompt to a side bar.
@@ -19,7 +27,8 @@
Debugger is active, to prevent hang or crash. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
bpo-43008: Make IDLE invoke :func:`sys.excepthook` in normal,
-2-process mode. Patch by Ken Hilton.
+2-process mode. User hooks were previously ignored.
+Patch by Ken Hilton.
bpo-33065: Fix problem debugging user classes with __repr__ method.
@@ -32,7 +41,7 @@
bpo-42426: Fix reporting offset of the RE error in searchengine.
-bpo-42416: Get docstrings for IDLE calltips more often
+bpo-42416: Display docstrings in IDLE calltips in more cases,
by using inspect.getdoc.
bpo-33987: Mostly finish using ttk widgets, mainly for editor,