diff -r 7266562c2bb3 Doc/Makefile
--- a/Doc/Makefile	Sat Oct 18 15:11:03 2014 -0700
+++ b/Doc/Makefile	Sun Oct 19 23:06:24 2014 -0500
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 	@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"
@@ -98,6 +99,13 @@
 	@echo "Building finished; now copy build/pydoc-topics/topics.py" \
 	      "to ../Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py"
 
+idledoc: BUILDER = html
+idledoc: SOURCES = library/idle.rst
+idledoc: build
+	@echo "Build finished; now copying build/html/library/idle.html to" \
+	"../Lib/idlelib/help.html."
+	@cp build/html/library/idle.html ../Lib/idlelib/help.html
+
 htmlview: html
 	 $(PYTHON) -c "import webbrowser; webbrowser.open('build/html/index.html')"
 
diff -r 7266562c2bb3 Doc/make.bat
--- a/Doc/make.bat	Sat Oct 18 15:11:03 2014 -0700
+++ b/Doc/make.bat	Sun Oct 19 23:06:24 2014 -0500
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 
 rem Targets that do require sphinx-build and have their own label
 if "%1" EQU "htmlview" goto htmlview
+if "%1" EQU "idledoc" goto idledoc
 
 rem Everything else
 goto build
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@
 echo.      html, htmlhelp, latex, text
 echo.      suspicious, linkcheck, changes, doctest
 echo.   Provided by this script:
-echo.      clean, check, serve, htmlview
+echo.      clean, check, serve, htmlview, idledoc
 echo.
 echo.All arguments past the first one are passed through to sphinx-build as
 echo.filenames to build or are ignored.  See README.txt in this directory or
@@ -112,6 +113,12 @@
 
 goto end
 
+:idledoc
+call %this% html library\idle.rst
+echo Now copying build/html/library/idle.html to ../Lib/idlelib/help.html
+copy build\html\library\idle.html ..\Lib\idlelib\help.html
+goto end
+
 :check
 cmd /C %PYTHON% tools\rstlint.py -i tools
 goto end