diff -r 627ebd001708 Doc/Makefile
--- a/Doc/Makefile	Sun Feb 17 16:56:28 2013 +0200
+++ b/Doc/Makefile	Sun Feb 17 22:57:26 2013 -0600
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 	@echo "  linkcheck  to check all external links for integrity"
 	@echo "  coverage   to check documentation coverage for library and C API"
 	@echo "  doctest    to run doctests in the documentation"
+	@echo "  idledoc    to regenerate the IDLE help file"
 	@echo "  pydoc-topics  to regenerate the pydoc topics file"
 	@echo "  dist       to create a \"dist\" directory with archived docs for download"
 	@echo "  suspicious to check for suspicious markup in output text"
@@ -115,6 +116,13 @@
 	@echo "Building finished; now copy build/pydoc-topics/topics.py" \
 	      "to ../Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py"
 
+idledoc: BULIDER = text
+idledoc: SOURCES = library/idle.rst
+idledoc: build
+    @echo "Build finished; now copying build/text/library/idle.txt to" \
+          "../Lib/idlelib/help.txt."
+    @cp build/text/library/idle.txt ../Lib/idlelib/help.txt
+
 htmlview: html
 	 $(PYTHON) -c "import webbrowser; webbrowser.open('build/html/index.html')"
 
diff -r 627ebd001708 Doc/make.bat
--- a/Doc/make.bat	Sun Feb 17 16:56:28 2013 +0200
+++ b/Doc/make.bat	Sun Feb 17 22:57:26 2013 -0600
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 if "%1" EQU "suspicious" goto build
 if "%1" EQU "linkcheck" goto build
 if "%1" EQU "changes" goto build
+if "%1" EQU "idledoc" goto idledoc
 if "%1" EQU "checkout" goto checkout
 if "%1" EQU "update" goto update
 
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@
 echo %this% suspicious
 echo %this% linkcheck
 echo %this% changes
+echo %this% idledoc
 echo.
 goto end
 
@@ -47,6 +49,12 @@
 svn update tools/pygments
 goto end
 
+:idledoc
+call make.bat text library\idle.rst
+echo Now copying build/text/library/idle.txt to ../Lib/idlelib/help.txt
+copy build\text\library\idle.txt ..\Lib\idlelib\help.txt
+goto end
+
 :build
 if not exist build mkdir build
 if not exist build\%1 mkdir build\%1