Update outdated text about how to fix the font.

2bccd90d · Guido van Rossum · 3d4986fc · 2bccd90d
Commit 2bccd90d authored Oct 08, 2001 by Guido van Rossum
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@@ -123,10 +123,11 @@ Syntax colors:
 Other preferences:
-	To change the font on Windows, open EditorWindow.py and change
+	Most preferences can be changed by editing one of the
-	    text['font'] = ("lucida console", 8)
+	configuration text files: config.txt (generic) or one of
-	to, e.g.,
+	config-unix.txt, config-win.txt, config.mac.txt (platform
-	    text['font'] = ("courier new", 10)
+	specific).  User-specific preferences can be stored in
+	$HOME/.idle, which overrides the config*.txt files.
 	To change keyboard bindings, edit Bindings.py