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+[See end for tips.]
+
File menu:
New window -- create a new editing window
@@ -75,9 +77,19 @@ Python syntax colors: the coloring is applied in a background thread
Comments red
Definitions blue
-Console colors:
+Shell colors:
- Console output red
+ Console output dark red
stdout blue
stderr dark green
- stdin purple
+ stdin black
+
+Tips:
+ To change the font on Windows, open EditorWindow.py and change
+ text['font'] = ("verdana", 8)
+ to, e.g.,
+ text['font'] = ("courier new", 10)
+
+ To change the Python syntax colors, edit the tagdefs table
+ in ColorDelegator.py; to change the shell colors, edit the
+ tagdefs table in PyShell.py.