Auto-Editing
Wing Pro's auto-editing operations help to reduce the amount of typing needed to write code by auto-entering text or making corrections as you type. The following operations are available and may be enabled or disabled in the Auto-editing preferences group:
Auto-Close Characters enters matching closing quotes, parentheses, brackets, braces, and comment characters. When this is enabled Wing also (1) skips over existing closing characters if they are typed anyway, and (2) auto-enters opening parentheses, brackets, and braces when an unmatched closing character is typed in Python code.
This operation is disabled selectively when working within strings, comments, and in other contexts where the auto-edit is more likely to interfere than assist. For example, quotes are only auto-closed at the end of a line or clause, most auto-closing is disabled within single-quoted strings, auto-closing is disabled if there is a matching unclosed character, auto-closing parentheses is disabled before a symbol, and some operations are omitted while auto-entering invocation arguments.
Auto-Enter Invocation Args enters the default arguments for a function or method invocation. Tab or Comma can be used to move among the arguments. Argument entry ends when moving past the last argument, or pressing ')' at the last argument. Unaltered default arguments are automatically removed when argument entry ends. When this is enabled, the following options are available:
Auto-wrap Arguments automatically re-wraps all the arguments to the configured Reformatting Wrap Column after auto-invocation ends.
Invoke After Completion starts auto-invocation automatically after completion of a callable name. If invocation is not wanted, such as when passing a function or method as an argument, you will need to press Delete twice.
Apply Quotes to Selection surrounds a non-empty selection with quotes when the quote character is typed. Pressing quote repeatedly produces a triple-quoted string.
Mutate Adjacent Quotes changes the style of quotes around a string in Python code when a quote character is pressed while the editor caret is adjacent to an existing quote character (either single or double quote) or a whole string is selected. This converts all the quotes in triple-quoted string delimiters.
Apply Comment Key to Selection will comment or uncomment the currently selected lines, using the style configured in the Editor > Block Comment Style preference. This operation only works with single-key comment characters such as '#'. Otherwise, use Toggle Block Comment in the Source menu.
Apply (), [], and {} to Selection surrounds the currently selected text when an open parenthesis, bracket, or brace is typed.
Apply Colon to Selection creates a new block out of a range of selected lines and places the caret for entry of the block type (if, try, for, with, etc). When try is entered, Wing auto-enters the matching except block. In this case, except is selected so it can be changed into finally. Pressing the Tab key moves into the except or finally block.
Auto-Enter Spaces adds spaces in Python code when typing operators or punctuation and refuses to enter redundant spaces in contexts where spacing is being enforced. For some cases, for example when typing ==, spacing will be adjusted differently after the first and second keys are pressed. Some associated characters may also be entered, such as ',' after a dict item when ':' is pressed. The following options are available:
Auto-Space After Keywords auto-enters spaces after Python keyword names. No space is added when the keyword name matches a snippet in the auto-completer, so that the auto-completer is not hidden and snippets can still be used.
Enforce PEP 8 Style Spacing prevents use of auto-spacing that does not adhere to PEP 8 style spacing. See PEP 8 Auto-formatting for other PEP 8 formatting options.
Spaces Around = in Argument Lists overrides PEP 8 conventions and places spaces around equals signs in argument lists.
Spaces Elsewhere in Argument Lists enables auto-spacing also in all other places in argument lists.
Spaces After : in Type Annotations auto-enters spaces after ':' when it is used in PEP 484 and PEP 526 style type hints.
Manage Blocks on Repeated Colon Key Presses creates new blocks automatically when the colon key is pressed. When the start of a new Python block is typed and ':' is pressed, this auto-indents the current line, adds EOL (end-of-line), and auto-indents the newly created line.
Pressing ':' a second time will remove the new line and instead indent the following existing line of code under the new block.
Pressing ':' a third time will instead indent the next contiguous block of lines under the new block, up to any blank line or line that belongs to an enclosing block.
In order to allow for adjustment of indentation before continuing, no EOL will be inserted after else, elif, except, and finally if the indentation position for that statement is ambigious due to the presence of multiple matching starting blocks. In that case, pressing ':' repeatedly will toggle the indentation between the possible positions.
The following option is available to control how block management works:
Prefer Block Management Over := and Type Hints causes Wing to immediately manage blocks when ':' is pressed even in contexts where a := (Python 3.8+) or var:type type hint (Python 3.6+ ) could be used. When this is disabled, pressing ':' a second time, after an existing colon, triggers block management.
Continue Comment or String on New Line auto-enters comment or string delimiters when Enter is pressed within the text of an existing comment or a string. This operation does not apply to triple-quoted strings.
Correct Out-of-Order Typing corrects common typos. For example, x(.) is replaced with x()., x(:) is replaced with x():, and Wing will add '.' when it is missing in x().d.
