Re: IDLE editor suggestion.

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

(If this problem could be solved, one would still need to add
some more code to add to the search strings to the value list.)

  The program still freezes/crashes here, but maybe this has to do
  with special circumstance of my personal Python installation.

  That being said, here's what makes the OP's suggestion work:

  In the IDLE source file "searchbase.py", replace the two occurences
  of "Entry" by "Combobox".

  In the file "search.py", in the definition of "default_command",
  before the line "if not self.engine.getprog():", insert
  (adding indentation as required by the context):

combobox = self.ent
if type( combobox[ 'values' ])!= type( () ):
    combobox[ 'values' ]=( combobox.get(), )
else:
    combobox[ 'values' ]=( combobox.get(), )+ combobox[ 'values' ]

  .