[ESS] jumping to a function's definition

[A.J. Rossini]

The interface that I'd be interested in seeing would be an "iswitchb"
approach to jumping to functions in source code.  That would make
sense to me.

Thomas Gerds had a nice iswitch-r that completed R objects; I've got
on my to-do list a generalization of it (it's currently xemacs only).

I believe that ECB (Emacs Code Browser, the reason I added the imenu
stuff) might have a means of navigation via keymaps.  "Might".  It's
worth checking.

You should be able to use keystrokes to navigate the menu pull-downs,
but that is an ugly hack.

On 3/1/06, Rajarshi Guha <rxg218 at psu.edu> wrote:
> Hi, I've recently switched to using Emacs and ESS.
>
> When I write R scripts that contain multiple functions, I note that I
> can get a a list of the available functions from the Imenu toolbar.
>
> Is there a way I can access this functionality from the keyboard? That
> is, if my cursor is on a function name (and it is also defined in the
> current file or maybe in a .R file in the current directory) and I do
> some combination of keys, say C-c b, I would be able to jump to the
> function definition.
>
> A little searching shows that I could do M-. to jump to functions, but I
> think it's more oriented towards C/C++ as it requires the use of a TAGS
> file.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated
>
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