IDLE: Improve and document help doc viewer

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#77,577 opened on May 1, 2018 4 comments 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

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topic-IDLE type-feature

BPO	33396
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @csabella
Dependencies	bpo-33397: IDLE help viewer: let users control font size bpo-34548: IDLE: Make TextView use the configured theme colors bpo-35093: IDLE: document the help document viewer

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assignee = 'https://github.com/terryjreedy'
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2018-05-01.04:07:44.476>
labels = ['3.8', 'expert-IDLE', 'type-feature', '3.7']
title = 'IDLE: Improve and document help doc viewer'
updated_at = <Date 2018-10-28.20:33:56.137>
user = 'https://github.com/terryjreedy'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2018-10-28.20:33:56.137>
actor = 'terry.reedy'
assignee = 'terry.reedy'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['IDLE']
creation = <Date 2018-05-01.04:07:44.476>
creator = 'terry.reedy'
dependencies = ['33397', '34548', '35093']
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 33396
keywords = []
message_count = 4.0
messages = ['315982', '317586', '326126', '328742']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['terry.reedy', 'cheryl.sabella']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue33396'
versions = ['Python 3.6', 'Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8']

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