this functionality is not present (e.g. when used with a vintage
Python 1.5.2 installation) top-level functions are not listed.

(Hmm...  Any distribution of IDLE 0.5 should probably include a copy
of the new pyclbr.py!)

Make the list of classes wider by default (40 chars).
Bind ESC to close-window.

Much has changed -- too much, in fact, to write down.
The big news is that there's a standard way to write IDLE extensions;
see extend.txt.  Some sample extensions have been provided, and
some existing code has been converted to extensions.  Probably the
biggest new user feature is a new search dialog with more options,
search and replace, and even search in files (grep).

This is exactly as downloaded from my laptop after returning
from the holidays -- it hasn't even been tested on Unix yet.

method browser into a separate class in its own module.