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diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/help.html b/Lib/idlelib/help.html index 684d75d..b8fecce 100644 --- a/Lib/idlelib/help.html +++ b/Lib/idlelib/help.html @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ it to the foreground (deiconifying it if necessary).</p> <dt>About IDLE</dt> <dd>Display version, copyright, license, credits, and more.</dd> <dt>IDLE Help</dt> -<dd>Display a help file for IDLE detailing the menu options, basic editing and +<dd>Display this IDLE document, detailing the menu options, basic editing and navigation, and other tips.</dd> <dt>Python Docs</dt> <dd>Access local Python documentation, if installed, or start a web browser @@ -341,7 +341,8 @@ and open docs.python.org showing the latest Python documentation.</dd> <dd>Run the turtledemo module with example Python code and turtle drawings.</dd> </dl> <p>Additional help sources may be added here with the Configure IDLE dialog under -the General tab.</p> +the General tab. See the “Help sources” subsection below for more +on Help menu choices.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="context-menus"> <span id="index-4"></span><h3>Context Menus<a class="headerlink" href="#context-menus" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> @@ -666,13 +667,22 @@ with the default subprocess if at all possible.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="help-and-preferences"> <h2>Help and preferences<a class="headerlink" href="#help-and-preferences" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> -<div class="section" id="additional-help-sources"> -<h3>Additional help sources<a class="headerlink" href="#additional-help-sources" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> -<p>IDLE includes a help menu entry called “Python Docs” that will open the -extensive sources of help, including tutorials, available at docs.python.org. -Selected URLs can be added or removed from the help menu at any time using the -Configure IDLE dialog. See the IDLE help option in the help menu of IDLE for -more information.</p> +<div class="section" id="help-sources"> +<h3>Help sources<a class="headerlink" href="#help-sources" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> +<p>Help menu entry “IDLE Help” displays a formatted html version of the +IDLE chapter of the Library Reference. The result, in a read-only +tkinter text window, is close to what one sees in a web browser. +Navigate through the text with a mousewheel, +the scrollbar, or up and down arrow keys held down. +Or click the TOC (Table of Contents) button and select a section +header in the opened box.</p> +<p>Help menu entry “Python Docs” opens the extensive sources of help, +including tutorials, available at docs.python.org/x.y, where ‘x.y’ +is the currently running Python version. If your system +has an off-line copy of the docs (this may be an installation option), +that will be opened instead.</p> +<p>Selected URLs can be added or removed from the help menu at any time using the +General tab of the Configure IDLE dialog .</p> </div> <div class="section" id="setting-preferences"> <h3>Setting preferences<a class="headerlink" href="#setting-preferences" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> @@ -731,7 +741,7 @@ also used for testing.</p> </ul> </li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#help-and-preferences">Help and preferences</a><ul> -<li><a class="reference internal" href="#additional-help-sources">Additional help sources</a></li> +<li><a class="reference internal" href="#help-sources">Help sources</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#setting-preferences">Setting preferences</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#extensions">Extensions</a></li> </ul> |