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+TO DO:
+
+- improve debugger:
+    - manage breakpoints globally, allow bp deletion, tbreak, cbreak etc.
+    - real object browser
+    - help on how to use it (a simple help button will do wonders)
+    - performance?  (updates of large sets of locals are slow)
+    - better integration of "debug module"
+    - debugger should be global resource (attached to flist, not to shell)
+    - fix the stupid bug where you need to step twice
+    - display class name in stack viewer entries for methods
+    - suppress tracing through IDLE internals (e.g. print)
+    - add a button to suppress through a specific module or class or method
+- insert the initial current directory into sys.path
+- default directory attribute for each window instead of only for windows
+  that have an associated filename
+- command expansion from keywords, module contents, other buffers, etc.
+- "Recent documents" menu item
+- Filter region command
+- Optional horizontal scroll bar
+- more Emacsisms:
+    - ^K should cut to buffer
+    - M-[, M-] to move by paragraphs
+    - incremental search?
+- search should indicate wrap-around in some way
+- restructure state sensitive code to avoid testing flags all the time
+- persistent user state (e.g. window and cursor positions, bindings)
+- make backups when saving
+- check file mtimes at various points
+- Pluggable interface with RCS/CVS/Perforce/Clearcase
+- better help?
+- don't open second class browser on same module (nor second path browser)
+- unify class and path browsers
+- Need to define a standard way whereby one can determine one is running
+  inside IDLE (needed for Tk mainloop, also handy for $PYTHONSTARTUP)
+- Add more utility methods for use by extensions (a la get_selection)
+- Way to run command in totally separate interpreter (fork+os.system?)
+- Way to find definition of fully-qualified name:
+  In other words, select "UserDict.UserDict", hit some magic key and
+  it loads up UserDict.py and finds the first def or class for UserDict.
+- need a way to force colorization on/off
+- need a way to force auto-indent on/off
+
+Details:
+
+- when there's a selection, left/right arrow should go to either
+  end of the selection
+- ^O (on Unix -- open-line) should honor autoindent
+- after paste, show end of pasted text
+- on Windows, should turn short filename to long filename (not only in argv!)
+  (shouldn't this be done -- or undone -- by ntpath.normpath?)
+- new autoindent after colon even indents when the colon is in a comment!
+- sometimes forward slashes in pathname remain
+- sometimes star in window name remains in Windows menu
+- With unix bindings, ESC by itself is ignored
+- Sometimes for no apparent reason a selection from the cursor to the
+  end of the command buffer appears, which is hard to get rid of
+  because it stays when you are typing!
+- The Line/Col in the status bar can be wrong initially in PyShell
+
+Structural problems:
+
+- too much knowledge in FileList about EditorWindow (for example)
+- should add some primitives for accessing the selection etc.
+  to repeat cumbersome code over and over
+
+======================================================================
+
+Jeff Bauer suggests:
+
+- Open Module doesn't appear to handle hierarchical packages.
+- Class browser should also allow hierarchical packages.
+- Open and Open Module could benefit from a history,
+  either command line style, or Microsoft recent-file
+  style.
+- Add a Smalltalk-style inspector  (i.e. Tkinspect)
+
+The last suggestion is already a reality, but not yet
+integrated into IDLE.  I use a module called inspector.py,
+that used to be available from python.org(?)  It no longer
+appears to be in the contributed section, and the source
+has no author attribution.
+
+In any case, the code is useful for visually navigating
+an object's attributes, including its container hierarchy.
+
+    >>> from inspector import Tkinspect
+    >>> Tkinspect(None, myObject)
+
+Tkinspect could probably be extended and refined to
+integrate better into IDLE.
+
+======================================================================
+
+Comparison to PTUI
+------------------
+
++ PTUI's help is better (HTML!)
+
++ PTUI can attach a shell to any module
+
++ PTUI has some more I/O commands:
+  open multiple
+  append
+  examine (what's that?)
+
+======================================================================
+
+Notes after trying to run Grail
+-------------------------------
+
+- Grail does stuff to sys.path based on sys.argv[0]; you must set
+sys.argv[0] to something decent first (it is normally set to the path of
+the idle script).
+
+- Grail must be exec'ed in __main__ because that's imported by some
+other parts of Grail.
+
+- Grail uses a module called History and so does idle :-(
+
+======================================================================
+
+Robin Friedrich's items:
+
+Things I'd like to see:
+    - I'd like support for shift-click extending the selection. There's a
+      bug now that it doesn't work the first time you try it.
+    - Printing is needed. How hard can that be on Windows?
+    - The python-mode trick of autoindenting a line with <tab> is neat and
+      very handy.
+    - (someday) a spellchecker for docstrings and comments.
+    - a pagedown/up command key which moves to next class/def statement (top
+      level)
+    - split window capability
+    - DnD text relocation/copying
+
+Things I don't want to see.
+    - line numbers...  will probably slow things down way too much.
+    - Please use another icon for the tree browser leaf. The small snake
+      isn't cutting it.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+- Customizable views (multi-window or multi-pane).  (Markus Gritsch)
+
+- Being able to double click (maybe double right click) on a callable
+object in the editor which shows the source of the object, if
+possible.  (Gerrit Holl)
+
+- Hooks into the guts, like in Emacs.  (Mike Romberg)
+
+- Sharing the editor with a remote tutor.  (Martijn Faassen)
+
+- Multiple views on the same file.  (Tony J Ibbs)
+
+- Store breakpoints in a global (per-project) database (GvR); Dirk
+Heise adds: save some space-trimmed context and search around when
+reopening a file that might have been edited by someone else.
+
+- Capture menu events in extensions without changing the IDLE source.
+(Matthias Barmeier)
+
+- Use overlapping panels (a "notebook" in MFC terms I think) for info
+that doesn't need to be accessible simultaneously (e.g. HTML source
+and output).  Use multi-pane windows for info that does need to be
+shown together (e.g. class browser and source).  (Albert Brandl)
+
+- A project should invisibly track all symbols, for instant search,
+replace and cross-ref.  Projects should be allowed to span multiple
+directories, hosts, etc.  Project management files are placed in a
+directory you specify.  A global mapping between project names and
+project directories should exist [not so sure --GvR].  (Tim Peters)
+
+- Merge attr-tips and auto-expand.  (Mark Hammond, Tim Peters)
+
+- Python Shell should behave more like a "shell window" as users know
+it -- i.e. you can only edit the current command, and the cursor can't
+escape from the command area.  (Albert Brandl)
+
+- Set X11 class to "idle/Idle", set icon and title to something
+beginning with "idle" -- for window manangers.  (Randall Hopper)
+
+- Config files editable through a preferences dialog.  (me)
+
+- Config files still editable outside the preferences dialog.
+(Randall Hopper)
+
+- When you're editing a command in PyShell, and there are only blank
+lines below the cursor, hitting Return should ignore or delete those
+blank lines rather than deciding you're not on the last line.  (me)
+
+- Run command (F5 c.s.) should be more like Pythonwin's Run -- a
+dialog with options to give command line arguments, run the debugger,
+etc.  (me)
+
+- Shouldn't be able to delete part of the prompt (or any text before
+it) in the PyShell.  (Martijn Faassen)
+
+- Emacs style auto-fill (also smart about comments and strings).
+(Jeremy Hylton)
+
+- Output of Run Script should go to a separate output window, not to
+the shell window.  Output of separate runs should all go to the same
+window but clearly delimited.  (David Scherer)