Blog Entry: emacs-rope
There are big difference in understanding of things - before you try thing, and after your try. I think this is a common human behavior - when you don't know some feature, you underestimate its value. For a years of development I almost never used things like refactoring functions (which were available in PyDev for some time), or code completion (btw: I have friends which still think that text editors which can open more then one file is a overkill).
Recently I come upon a very interesting project: Rope
When I curiously recently installed Rope and Ropemacs I was shocked how much value it adds to my daily development.
Features, which I already found and actively use are:
- Code completion with Alt+/
- C-x p f rope-find-file
- C-c r r rope-rename
- C-c r d rope-show-doc
That is very common that I don't remember some function arguments during typing the code. Rope-Code-Assist and Rope-Show-Doc is killing combination for a people with short memory ;-)
Rope-find-file makes it very easy to find a file in your project, especially when there are 50 directories and 300 files - it reduces find file time to a absolute minimin.
I am very happy that I found such a great tool!
Btw, I also found that not all version of ropemacs,rope and rpymacs work together, so here is combination which guaranteed to work:
alex@appserver ~/src $ ls -d r* rope-0.7.6 ropeide-1.5 ropemacs-0.5c3 rpymacs-b97e0488c296 alex@appserver ~/src $
av commented, on March 6, 2008 at 5:08 p.m.:
C-c g rope-goto-definition