[wingide-users] Templates in 3.1

[Wingware Support]

Luc Bourhis wrote:
> the new template mechanism is a nice feature. However I am not too fond 
> of the fact that the template mode must be explicitly escaped. Let's 
> take an example:
> 
> def foo(self, args):
>   code
> 
> Typical use would be: start typing def; hit tab, therefore 
> autocompleting the template; type foo; hit tab; type args; hit tab; type 
> the code. At that point, I find it very unlikely I would want to use tab 
> to go back to foo or to use the arrow keys to change the indentation of 
> the whole block: I just want to type my code as usual and I would 
> therefore wish that the template mode would switch itself off without my 
> having to hit the escape key.

I agree this would be good.  The final cursor resting position is denoted
by |!| in the template and I think it would be reasonable to turn off
the data entry mode when that is reached.  Templates that don't want that
would just use fields and no |!|, tho I'm not sure that would be needed
very often.  I'll change this before the next beta if not sooner by patch.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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