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authorTerry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2022-01-26 04:48:53 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-01-26 04:48:53 (GMT)
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bpo-48146: Update IDLE part of What's New 3.10 to 2022 (GH-30906)
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst17
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
index 85bb1f8..73c22aa 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -1148,10 +1148,18 @@ IDLE and idlelib
----------------
Make IDLE invoke :func:`sys.excepthook` (when started without '-n').
-User hooks were previously ignored. (Patch by Ken Hilton in
+User hooks were previously ignored. (Contributed by Ken Hilton in
:issue:`43008`.)
-This change was backported to a 3.9 maintenance release.
+Rearrange the settings dialog. Split the General tab into Windows
+and Shell/Ed tabs. Move help sources, which extend the Help menu, to the
+Extensions tab. Make space for new options and shorten the dialog. The
+latter makes the dialog better fit small screens. (Contributed by Terry Jan
+Reedy in :issue:`40468`.) Move the indent space setting from the Font tab to
+the new Windows tab. (Contributed by Mark Roseman and Terry Jan Reedy in
+:issue:`33962`.)
+
+These changes were backported to a 3.9 maintenance release.
Add a Shell sidebar. Move the primary prompt ('>>>') to the sidebar.
Add secondary prompts ('...') to the sidebar. Left click and optional
@@ -1164,12 +1172,9 @@ in :issue:`37903`.)
Use spaces instead of tabs to indent interactive code. This makes
interactive code entries 'look right'. Making this feasible was a
-major motivation for adding the shell sidebar. Contributed by
+major motivation for adding the shell sidebar. (Contributed by
Terry Jan Reedy in :issue:`37892`.)
-We expect to backport these shell changes to a future 3.9 maintenance
-release.
-
Highlight the new :ref:`soft keywords <soft-keywords>` :keyword:`match`,
:keyword:`case <match>`, and :keyword:`_ <wildcard-patterns>` in
pattern-matching statements. However, this highlighting is not perfect