This is a meta-issue for the following blog post: http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2011/11/29/the-things-i-hate-about-idle-that-i-wish-someone-would-fix/

There are a bunch of good ideas there that should be split out into a number of separate bug reports and feature requests. This meta-bug is just a quick and dirty way to suggest doing so, and giving people a place to collaborate on the task.

If you decide to work on one of the problems or feature requests mentioned in that post:

1. Create a separate, appropriately titled, tracker issue
2. Add that issue to the Dependencies field on this one.
3. Add a comment here to map the point number from the blog post to the relevant tracker issue number (so that issues don't get doubled up).

Also add dependencies and links for any already known issues. For example:

#10747 covers point 16) (re. version numbers in Windows shortcuts)

#10364 covers point 7 (make .py default added extension on save)

#2704 covers point 1 (In the shell window, if you click anywhere but on the current line and move the cursor there, the window stops handling key strokes.)

#3851 covers point 1.1) "Pressing the Home key moves the cursor before the >>> prompt, which then makes the keyboard unresponsive."

#7136 covers point 5) "Opening a file editor window or a shell window isn’t clear."

#6804 and #6858 are also related to point 7 "It’s too easy to forget the .py extension when saving a file."

#694339 covers point 13) "The Indent Region and Dedent Region lines use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-] and Ctrl-[, even though nobody uses that because you can indent the region by pressing tab."

#5150 is related to point 14) "Get rid of the Format > “Strip trailing whitespace” option from the menu"

#10747 covers point 16) "The Windows shortcuts for IDLE don’t have the version in their name."

#13884 has a patch to address point 4) ANNOYANCE: Get rid of the detachable menus feature.

http://bugs.python.org/issue17535 covers issue 12 Add an option to show line numbers along the left side of the editor window, and have it enabled by default.

Issue17721 addresses part of point 11) "And am I the only person who noticed that the Help button doesn’t actually do anything?"