Extension that fixes loading extensions from the user config file.
This IDLE extension patches IDLE to be able to properly load extensions
from the user configuration directory (~/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg
)
instead of forcing you to modify the root extension file.
- Go to terminal and install with
pip install idleuserextend
. - Run command
idleuserextend
. You should see the following output:Config should be good!
. - Open IDLE, go to
Options
->Configure IDLE
->Extensions
. If everything went well, alongsideZzDummy
there should be and option calledidleuserextend
. All extensions are now able to load from the user extension configuration file alone, no need to modifyconfig-extensions.def
in/usr/lib/python3.XX/idlelib
anymore!
enable
toggles whether the extension is active or not.