➜

This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author eryksun
Recipients eryksun, jan parowka, markroseman, martin.panter, terry.reedy
Date 2015-10-29.09:53:45
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <1446112426.22.0.266131764612.issue24765@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to
Content 
On Windows, how about creating a junction (_winapi.CreateJunction in 3.5, or the shell's mklink /j) from ~\.idlerc to %APPDATA%\idle? If ~\.idlerc already exists, it could be moved to %APPDATA%\idle before creating the junction. New code would directly use %APPDATA%\idle, but old code would continue to use ~\.idlerc.

Creating junctions requires no special privilege, but IDLE would need write access to the user's home directory. If write access is denied, at least newer IDLE versions that use %APPDATA% would work.

On Linux, a symbolic link could be created from ~/.idlerc to [$XDG_CONFIG_HOME|~/.config]/idle.
History
Date User Action Args
2015-10-29 09:53:46eryksunsetrecipients: + eryksun, terry.reedy, markroseman, martin.panter, jan parowka
2015-10-29 09:53:46eryksunsetmessageid: <1446112426.22.0.266131764612.issue24765@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2015-10-29 09:53:46eryksunlinkissue24765 messages
2015-10-29 09:53:45eryksuncreate