Commit bed523ba authored by Terry Jan Reedy's avatar Terry Jan Reedy Committed by GitHub

bpo-33642 and bpo-33679: Revise and condense blurbs (GH-7500)

parent 79790bc3
IDLE: Only display actual code context lines. Display up to maxlines non-blank lines for Code Context.
Instead of displaying a fixed number of lines, some blank, Code Context If there is no current context, show a single blank line.
now displays the variable number of actual context lines. When there
are no context lines, it shows a single blank line to indicate that the
feature is turned on.
The Code Context configuration option is changed from 'numlines'
(default 3) to 'maxlines' (default 15) to avoid possible interference
between user settings for the old and new versions of Code Context.
IDLE: Re-enable color configuration for Code Context. Enable theme-specific color configuration for Code Context.
The difference from before is that the settings are now on the Use the Highlights tab to see the setting for built-in themes
Highlights tab instead of the Extensions tab and only change one theme or add settings to custom themes.
at a time instead of all themes. The default for light themes is black
on light gray, as before. The default for the IDLE Dark theme is white
on dark gray, which better fits the dark theme.
When one starts IDLE from a console and loads a custom theme without
definitions for 'context', one will see a warning message on the console.
To stop the warning, go to Options => Configure IDLE => Highlights,
select the custom theme if not selected already, select 'Code Context',
and select foreground and background colors.
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