Wing IDE Reference Manual
Version 1.1.10

Contents

• Contents
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Product Levels
  • 1.2 Licenses
  • 1.3 Technical Support
  • 1.4 Installing
    • 1.4.1 Supported Platforms
    • 1.4.2 Prerequisites
    • 1.4.3 Python versions
    • 1.4.4 Windows Installation
    • 1.4.5 Linux Installation
    • 1.4.6 Mac OS X Installation
  • 1.5 Running the IDE
    • 1.5.1 Installing your License
    • 1.5.2 Setting Initial Preferences
    • 1.5.3 Command Line Usage
  • 1.6 Installing a Permanent License
  • 1.7 Installing Extra Documentation
  • 1.8 Multi-user Installations (Linux and Mac OS X only)
  • 1.9 Source Installation
    • 1.9.1 For Windows
    • 1.9.2 For Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD
  • 1.10 Removing an Installation
    • 1.10.1 Windows
    • 1.10.2 Linux
    • 1.10.3 Mac OS X
    • 1.10.4 All Platforms
  • 1.11 Command Line Argument
• 2. Customization
  • 2.1 Preferences
    • 2.1.1 Preferences File Format
  • 2.2 Configuring the User Interface
    • 2.2.1 GUI Modes
    • 2.2.2 Editor Personalities
    • 2.2.3 Key Equivalents
    • 2.2.4 Menu Bar
    • 2.2.5 Tool Bar
    • 2.2.6 Debug Trace Logs for Wing IDE
    • 2.2.7 Other Preferences
• 3. Project Manager
  • 3.1 Creating a Project
    • 3.1.1 New Project
    • 3.1.2 Adding Files and Packages
    • 3.1.3 Setting a Main Debug File
    • 3.1.4 Removing Files and Packages
    • 3.1.5 Saving the Project
  • 3.2 Sorting the View
  • 3.3 Keyboard Navigation
  • 3.4 Project Types
    • 3.4.1 Shared Project Data
    • 3.4.2 User-specific Project Data
  • 3.5 Project-wide Properties
  • 3.6 Per-file Properties
  • 3.7 Viewing File Information
  • 3.8 Navigating to Source
  • 3.9 Compacting Projects
  • 3.10 Preferences
• 4. Source Code Editor
  • 4.1 Using multi-view window mode
  • 4.2 Using single-view mode
  • 4.3 Syntax Colorization
    • 4.3.1 Supported file types
    • 4.3.2 Colorization Options
  • 4.4 Navigating your Source
  • 4.5 Structural Folding
  • 4.6 Brace Matching
  • 4.7 Indentation
    • 4.7.1 Auto-Indent
    • 4.7.2 The Tab Key
    • 4.7.3 Checking Indentation
    • 4.7.4 Changing Block Indentation
    • 4.7.5 Indentation Manager
  • 4.8 Auto-completion
  • 4.9 Auto-save
  • 4.10 Notes on Copy/Paste
  • 4.11 Auto-reload of Externally Changed Files
  • 4.12 Normal Editor Personality
    • 4.12.1 Cursor Movement
    • 4.12.2 Indentation
    • 4.12.3 Commenting and Justification
    • 4.12.4 Insertion and Deletion
    • 4.12.5 Undo and Clipboard
    • 4.12.6 File and Window Control
    • 4.12.7 Search and Replace
    • 4.12.8 Macros
    • 4.12.9 Other
  • 4.13 Emacs Emulation
    • 4.13.1 Cursor Movement
    • 4.13.2 Indentation
    • 4.13.3 Commenting and Justification
    • 4.13.4 Insertion and Deletion
    • 4.13.5 Undo and Clipboard
    • 4.13.6 File and Window Control
    • 4.13.7 Search and Replace
    • 4.13.8 Macros
    • 4.13.9 Other
  • 4.14 Search/Replace
  • 4.15 Keyboard Macros
    • 4.15.1 Example (in Emacs mode)
    • 4.15.2 Repetition
  • 4.16 Source Code Analysis
    • 4.16.1 Python versions
    • 4.16.2 Limitations
    • 4.16.3 Disk Cache
  • 4.17 Preferences
• 5. Source Code Browser
  • 5.1 Display Choices
    • 5.1.1 Viewing by Module
    • 5.1.2 Class Hierarchy
    • 5.1.3 All Classes
    • 5.1.4 Keyboard Navigation
  • 5.2 Display Filters
    • 5.2.1 Construct Scope and Source
    • 5.2.2 Construct Type
  • 5.3 Sorting
  • 5.4 Embedded Information Display
    • 5.4.1 Documentation
    • 5.4.2 Source Display
  • 5.5 Navigating to Source
  • 5.6 Preferences
• 6. Debugger
  • 6.1 Quick Start
  • 6.2 Specifying Main Entry Point
  • 6.3 Debug Properties
    • 6.3.1 Project-wide Properties
    • 6.3.2 Per-file Properties
    • 6.3.3 Relation to Source Analysis
  • 6.4 Setting Breakpoints
  • 6.5 Starting a Debug Session
  • 6.6 Flow Control
  • 6.7 Viewing the Stack
  • 6.8 Viewing Variables
    • 6.8.1 Tree View
    • 6.8.2 Textual View
    • 6.8.3 Tracking Individual Values
    • 6.8.4 Filtering Data Display
    • 6.8.5 Problems Handling Debug Data
  • 6.9 Evaluating Expressions
  • 6.10 Interactive Debug Probe
  • 6.11 Interactive Python Shell
  • 6.12 Managing Exceptions
    • 6.12.1 Filtering Exceptions
  • 6.13 Debug Process Keyboard I/O
  • 6.14 Attaching to and Detaching from Debug Processes
    • 6.14.1 Access Control
    • 6.14.2 Detaching
    • 6.14.3 Attaching
    • 6.14.4 Identifying Foreign Processes
    • 6.14.5 Constraints
  • 6.15 Debugging Externally Initiated Processes
    • 6.15.1 Importing the Debugger Stub
    • 6.15.2 Server-side configuration
    • 6.15.3 Remote Debugging
    • 6.15.4 Defining file location maps
    • 6.15.5 Remote Debugging Example
    • 6.15.6 Encrypting the Debug Channel
    • 6.15.7 Full Control via Debug API
  • 6.16 Running Code Without Debug
  • 6.17 Using the debugger and Python profiler together
  • 6.18 Limitations
  • 6.19 Porting or Recompiling the Debug Server
    • 6.19.1 Getting started
    • 6.19.2 Building on hosts with shared libraries
    • 6.19.3 Building on hosts with no shared libraries
    • 6.19.4 Using your setup
  • 6.20 Non-Python Mainloop Environments
    • 6.20.1 Supported non-Python mainloop environments
    • 6.20.2 Working around the problem
    • 6.20.3 How it works
    • 6.20.4 Writing a Debug Server Hook
  • 6.21 Hints for Debugging Web CGIs
  • 6.22 Using Wing with Zope
  • 6.23 Using Wing with mod_python
  • 6.24 Using Wing with pygame
  • 6.25 Preferences
• A. Command Reference
  • A.1 Overview
  • A.2 Top Level
  • A.3 Project Manager
  • A.4 Source Code Editor
  • A.5 Debugger
• B. Wing Tips
  • B.1 Online Resources for Wing IDE
  • B.2 Python Language Reference
  • B.3 Useful Tools
    • B.3.1 Performance Profiling
    • B.3.2 Busting Object Reference Cycles (Python 1.5.2)
    • B.3.3 Debugging C/C++ Modules (on Linux/Unix)
  • B.4 Wing IDE Source Code
    • B.4.1 Setting up the Source
    • B.4.2 Top-level Organization
    • B.4.3 IDE Sub-systems
    • B.4.4 Documentation
    • B.4.5 Naming Convention
• C. Software License