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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-10-08 22:49:12 (GMT)
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@@ -123,10 +123,11 @@ Syntax colors:
Other preferences:
- To change the font on Windows, open EditorWindow.py and change
- text['font'] = ("lucida console", 8)
- to, e.g.,
- text['font'] = ("courier new", 10)
+ Most preferences can be changed by editing one of the
+ configuration text files: config.txt (generic) or one of
+ config-unix.txt, config-win.txt, config.mac.txt (platform
+ specific). User-specific preferences can be stored in
+ $HOME/.idle, which overrides the config*.txt files.
To change keyboard bindings, edit Bindings.py