[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Patches-3048869 ] F1 auto keyword help; Interact with edit lines

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Patches item #3048869, was opened at 2010-08-19 20:53
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Submitted By: kxroberto (kxroberto)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: F1 auto keyword help;  Interact with edit lines 

Initial Comment:
F1 keyword help
F1: Python Help
Ctrl+F1: PythonWin
Alt+F1: MSDN
Numpy & wx

quick debugging and trying things out
(Ctrl-Enter Debugger can be used also after that:)
Ctrl-K : interact with marked editor lines in Interactive (in __main__)
Ctrl-E : exectued marked editor lines in Interactive (in __main__)
(works also while in debugger;)


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>Comment By: kxroberto (kxroberto)
Date: 2010-08-26 11:31

Message:
well, keyword help code perhaps could go permanently to help.py or the
editor code. 
because probably there remain mainly only 2 kind of actions: keyword ->
helpfile, keyword -> URL-templatestring "http:/....xy=%s".  the only
special handling, keyword modification "wx%s" could be also enabled by a
predefined scheme. For the rest a (short) .cfg handler could still use the
functions from pywin.framework.help.

for (optional) help files  a keyword help key could be set together with
the help file (.chm or ULR) in registry, valueName/value like 

default="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US/?Query=%s"
keyword_help_key=Alt+F1

WX-C-Help..
keyword_help_key=F12
keyword_help_keyword="wx%s"


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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2010-08-25 09:59

Message:
Thanks!  But I think I'd prefer to see most of the help functionality in
pywin/framework/help.py which already has support for the help menus.  If
we have support for the keyboard for these new help files, the menu should
probably get them too (which the short-cut keys included) - but that might
make things ugly given many people may not have wx or numpy installed.  I
wonder how hard it would be to refactor some of that and only show menu
items if the help file is installed?

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