You could try ecb. That is emacs code browser.
On Nov 19, 2013 11:46 AM, "Ista Zahn" <istazahn@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  >>> "Sebastien Vauban" on Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:31:31 +0100 wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> >  S> I meant that, upon opening a .R file, extra windows get
> automatically created,
> >  S> and laid out as in R studio: script file, "R shell", data in memory,
> graphics.
> >
> > You will have no luck with that. That is the "feature" of emacs which
> > makes it stay apart. The fundamental principle is "you get something
> > whenever you need it" as opposite to "always have it, whether it is
> > needed or not".
>
> Yes, and as the author of the original motivating screenshot, I should
> note that the emacs frame was set up to show off some of the available
> functionality, not to re-create a fixed-layout IDE. You can try to
> make emacs start up with a specific configuration and keep it, but it
> is not the emacs way and you will end up fighting with emacs rather
> than taking advantage of its strengths. You will be better off just
> accepting that emacs/ess wil change your window configuration any time
> it sees fit--this can take a while to get used to, but once you adjust
> it is a very nice way of working. To ease the adjustment you may find
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WinnerMode helpful--it allows you to
> restore the previous configuration easily after ess changes it.
>
> Best,
> Ista
>
>
> This is precisely why emacs doesn't stay in your way,
> > but other editors do. There are hundreds of useful tools in emacs, you
> > cannot have them all displayed at once.
> >
> > It is also why emacs is difficult to learn, as you need to learn how to
> > activate the things when you need them; but then you need to know that
> > those things exist in the first place :-)
> >
> >  S> Side question: when opening a .R file, I get ESS[S] written in the
> modeline.
> >  S> What must I do to get ESS[R]?  What's the impact of having S
> displayed?
> >
> > This one is historically motivated. The letter stands for the language
> which
> > is S. R is a dialect of S. People proposed to change that some time ago,
> > but we decided to keep it for reasons that I cannot now remember.
> >
> >    Vitalie
> >
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