Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
The help file is help.html. Pulling snippet from this would be rather awkward.
The suggested additions to help.txt more or less duplicate the Setting
preferences subsection. So closing.
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resolution: -> out of date
stage: needs patch -> resolved
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Help has been restored, but perhaps not with this patch. Before closing, I
should check if there is anything I want to use.
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assignee: -> terry.reedy
components: +IDLE
versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7 -Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4
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Saimadhav Heblikar added the comment:
This patch brings back the help button to idle config dialog.
It uses regex to "get" the correct section from the help.txt file(the same file
used to display IDLE help).
To make it more useful,i have added few help sentences to each of the tabs
present in t
New submission from Terry J. Reedy:
The Idle options/configuration dialog had a useless Help button that did
nothing. #17721 commented out the creation and packing of the button. This
issue is about making the Help method work. Perhaps it should open the general
help document at the options se
