[ESS] Jumping to (or listing) functions in a given file?

[A.J. Rossini]

ecb support and speedbar support should also provide what you need,
but you've found the basic infrastructure.   Stephen or someone should
check the regex's you suggest...

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Steve Lianoglou
<mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice!
>
> The imenu/ido works *almost* perfect.
>
> Say I have these two S4 defs:
>
> setMethod("something", c(x="character"),
> function(x, ...) {
> })
>
> setMethod("something", c(x="integer"),
> function(x, ...) {
> })
>
> Using Imenu in an emacs gui, "something" is repeated twice, w/o the
> ability to distinguish the "character" version vs the "integer"
> version.
>
> Using imenu/ido from the terminal, "something" is only listed once.
>
> Changing the regex used in ess-5.11::ess-menu.el from
>    ("Methods" "^.*set\\(Group\\|Replace\\)?Method(\"\\(.+\\)\"," 2)
> to
>    ("Methods" "^.*set\\(Group\\|Replace\\)?Method(\"\\(.+\\)\",?" 2)
>
> Now includes
> something", c(x="integer
> something", c(x"character
>
> which seems to work better in both the GUI and when using this via
> terminal + Imenu stuff you pointed to.
>
> Although I reckon an even better regex could be jimmied up (to include
> all params beings S4-dispatched against?), perhaps this might be a
> good enhancement in base ess for now?
>
> Thanks for the Imenu tip, using it w/ ido is awesome.
>
> -steve
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Short, Tom <TShort at epri.com> wrote:
>>
>> Steve, check out Imenu:
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ImenuMode
>>
>> I like to access the Imenu entries through Anything:
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ImenuMode#toc11
>>
>> It looks like ido access is possible, too:
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ImenuMode#toc10
>>
>> - Tom
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
>>> Steve Lianoglou
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 13:11
>>> To: ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> Subject: [ESS] Jumping to (or listing) functions in a given file?
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Still an emacs n00b, sorry if it's a basic question.
>>>
>>> Is there some easy way to help navigate/jump between
>>> functions in the current buffer I'm working in?
>>>
>>> As a reference, TextMate has a great little widget that you
>>> invoke via cmd-shift-T. When invoked, a small pop up appears
>>> listing all functions in the current window (parsing is done
>>> via the language definition, I reckon). You can start typing
>>> the name of the function, and it'll filter down the list
>>> until you hit the one you want (or you could up/down arrow
>>> through your options).
>>>
>>> Back to emacs, I'm imagining invoking some command that lists
>>> all of the functions in my working buffer down in the
>>> minibuffer that I could navigate through "as usual" (ie. I'm
>>> using ido to get the fuzzy-matching in there).
>>>
>>> It would be great if this "thing" could parse functions in an
>>> S4-aware manner.
>>>
>>> Pipe-dream? Already there (hopefully no ctags required(?))?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -steve
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Lianoglou
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
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