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Version 5.1.6-1

Wingware

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August 18, 2015


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Sub-sections:

  1. Introduction
    1.0. Product Levels
    1.1. Licenses
    1.2. Supported Platforms
    1.3. Supported Python versions
    1.4. Technical Support
    1.5. Prerequisites for Installation
    1.6. Installing Wing IDE
    1.7. Running Wing IDE
    1.8. Installing your License
    1.9. User Settings Directory
    1.10. Upgrading
      1.10.0. Migrating from older versions of Wing
      1.10.1. Fixing a Failed Upgrade
    1.11. Installation Details and Options
      1.11.0. Linux Installation Notes
      1.11.1. Remote Display on Linux
      1.11.2. Installing Extra Documentation
      1.11.3. Source Code Installation
    1.12. Backing Up and Sharing Settings
    1.13. Removing Wing IDE
    1.14. Command Line Usage
  2. Customization
    2.0. Keyboard Personalities
      2.0.0. Key Equivalents
      2.0.1. Key Maps
      2.0.2. Key Names
    2.1. User Interface Options
      2.1.0. Display Style and Colors
      2.1.1. Windowing Policies
      2.1.2. User Interface Layout
      2.1.3. Altering Text Display
    2.2. Preferences
      2.2.0. Preferences File Layers
      2.2.1. Preferences File Format
    2.3. Syntax Coloring
    2.4. Perspectives
    2.5. File Filters
  3. Project Manager
    3.0. Creating a Project
    3.1. Removing Files and Directories
    3.2. Saving the Project
    3.3. Sorting the View
    3.4. Navigating to Files
      3.4.0. Keyboard Navigation
    3.5. Sharing Projects
    3.6. Project-wide Properties
      3.6.0. Environment Variable Expansion
    3.7. Per-file Properties
    3.8. Launch Configurations
  4. Source Code Editor
    4.0. Syntax Colorization
    4.1. Right-click Editor Menu
    4.2. Navigating Source
    4.3. File status and read-only files
    4.4. Transient, Sticky, and Locked Editors
    4.5. Auto-completion
    4.6. Source Assistant
      4.6.0. Docstring Type and Validity
      4.6.1. Python Documentation Links
      4.6.2. Working with Runtime Type Information
      4.6.3. Source Assistant Options
    4.7. Auto-editing
    4.8. Bookmarks
    4.9. File Sets
    4.10. Code Snippets
    4.11. Indentation
      4.11.0. How Indent Style is Determined
      4.11.1. Indentation Preferences
      4.11.2. Indentation Policy
      4.11.3. Auto-Indent
      4.11.4. The Tab Key
      4.11.5. Checking Indentation
      4.11.6. Changing Block Indentation
      4.11.7. Indentation Manager
    4.12. Folding
    4.13. Brace Matching
    4.14. Support for files in .zip or .egg files
    4.15. Keyboard Macros
    4.16. Notes on Copy/Paste
    4.17. Auto-reloading Changed Files
    4.18. Auto-save
  5. Search/Replace
    5.0. Toolbar Quick Search
    5.1. Keyboard-driven Mini-Search/Replace
    5.2. Search Tool
    5.3. Search in Files Tool
      5.3.0. Replace in Multiple Files
    5.4. Find Points of Use
    5.5. Wildcard Search Syntax
  6. Refactoring
    6.0. Rename Symbol
    6.1. Move Symbol
    6.2. Extract Function / Method
    6.3. Introduce Variable
  7. Diff/Merge Tool
  8. Source Code Browser
    8.0. Display Choices
      8.0.0. Browse Project Modules
      8.0.1. Browsing Project Classes
      8.0.2. Viewing Current Module
    8.1. Display Filters
      8.1.0. Filtering Scope and Source
      8.1.1. Filtering Construct Type
    8.2. Sorting the Browser Display
    8.3. Navigating the Views
    8.4. Browser Keyboard Navigation
  9. Interactive Python Shell
    9.0. Python Shell Auto-completion
    9.1. Python Shell Options
  10. OS Commands Tool
    10.0. OS Command Properties
  11. Unit Testing
    11.0. Project Test Files
    11.1. Running Tests
    11.2. Running unittest Tests From the Command Line
  12. Debugger
    12.0. Quick Start
    12.1. Specifying Main Entry Point
      12.1.0. Named Entry Points
    12.2. Debug Properties
    12.3. Setting Breakpoints
    12.4. Starting Debug
    12.5. Debugger Status
    12.6. Flow Control
    12.7. Viewing the Stack
    12.8. Viewing Debug Data
      12.8.0. Stack Data View
        12.8.0.0. Popup Menu Options
        12.8.0.1. Filtering Value Display
      12.8.1. Watching Values
      12.8.2. Evaluating Expressions
      12.8.3. Problems Handling Values
    12.9. Debug Process I/O
      12.9.0. External I/O Consoles
      12.9.1. Disabling Debug Process I/O Multiplexing
    12.10. Interactive Debug Probe
      12.10.0. Managing Program State
      12.10.1. Debug Probe Options
    12.11. Multi-Process Debugging
    12.12. Debugging Multi-threaded Code
    12.13. Managing Exceptions
    12.14. Running Without Debug
  13. Advanced Debugging Topics
    13.0. Debugging Externally Launched Code
      13.0.0. Importing the Debugger
      13.0.1. Debug Server Configuration
      13.0.2. Debugger API
      13.0.3. Debugging Embedded Python Code
    13.1. Remote Debugging
      13.1.0. SSH Tunneling
      13.1.1. File Location Maps
        13.1.1.0. File Location Map Examples
      13.1.2. Remote Debugging Example
      13.1.3. Installing the Debugger Core
    13.2. Using wingdb to Initiate Debug
    13.3. Attaching and Detaching
      13.3.0. Access Control
      13.3.1. Detaching
      13.3.2. Attaching
      13.3.3. Identifying Foreign Processes
      13.3.4. Constraints
    13.4. Handling Large Values and Strings in the Debugger
    13.5. Debugging C/C++ and Python together
    13.6. Debugging Extension Modules on Linux/Unix
    13.7. OS X Debugging Notes
    13.8. Debugging Code with XGrab* Calls
    13.9. Debugging Non-Python Mainloops
    13.10. Debugging Code Running Under Py2exe
    13.11. Debugger Limitations
  14. Integrated Version Control
    14.0. Setting Up Version Control in Wing
    14.1. Version Control Tool Panel
    14.2. Common Version Control Operations
    14.3. Bazaar
    14.4. CVS
    14.5. Git
    14.6. Mercurial
    14.7. Perforce
    14.8. Subversion
    14.9. Version Control Configuration
      14.9.0. Configuring SSH
      14.9.1. Configuring Subversion
      14.9.2. Configuring CVS
  15. Source Code Analysis
    15.0. How Analysis Works
    15.1. Static Analysis Limitations
    15.2. Helping Wing Analyze Code
    15.3. Analysis Disk Cache
  16. PyLint Integration
  17. Scripting and Extending Wing IDE
    17.0. Scripting Example
    17.1. Getting Started
    17.2. Script Syntax
    17.3. Scripting API
    17.4. Advanced Scripting
  18. Trouble-shooting Guide
    18.0. Trouble-shooting Failure to Start
    18.1. Speeding up Wing
    18.2. Trouble-shooting Failure to Debug
      18.2.0. Failure to Start Debug
      18.2.1. Failure to Stop on Breakpoints or Show Source Code
      18.2.2. Failure to Stop on Exceptions
      18.2.3. Extra Debugger Exceptions
    18.3. Trouble-shooting Other Known Problems
    18.4. Obtaining Diagnostic Output
  19. Preferences Reference
  20. Command Reference
    20.0. Top-level Commands
    20.1. Project Manager Commands
    20.2. Editor Commands
    20.3. Search Manager Commands
    20.4. Unit Testing Commands
    20.5. Version Control Commands
    20.6. Debugger Commands
    20.7. Script-provided Add-on Commands
  21. Key Binding Reference
    21.0. Wing IDE Personality
    21.1. Emacs Personality
    21.2. VI/VIM Personality
    21.3. Visual Studio Personality
    21.4. OS X Personality
    21.5. Eclipse Personality
    21.6. Brief Personality
  22. License Information
    22.0. Wing IDE Software License
    22.1. Open Source License Information