[ESS] Using anything.el for R help / object browsing

[Short, Tom]

Mathieu,

Either comment out the "anything-c-source-recentf" line in the "(setq anything-sources" section or add (require 'recentf) to your .emacs. That's for showing/searching your recent file history.

- Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Basille [mailto:basille at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr] 
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:42 AM
To: Short, Tom
Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [ESS] Using anything.el for R help / object browsing

Hello,

I just installed anything to have a look at it (I'm so curious...).
The installation went fine, and Emacs run without any error message (I 
had first to integrate anything-c-source-occur in my .emacs : 
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AnythingSources#toc13).

Anyway, when I hit F12, Emacs blinks once and tell me in a mini-buffer:
"Candidates must either be a function, a variable or a list: recentf-list"
And then, nothing happens. Quite frustrating, I have to say :D

(I checked that F12 was only dedicated to anything)

Any idea?
Mathieu.



ts8 a écrit :
> Anything.el is a great emacs extension. I use anything.el in emacs for buffer
> switching, finding recent files, and file searching on my disk. Here is more
> information on anything:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Anything
> 
> It's been called quicksilver for emacs. You can use it for searching and
> much more. I've extended it to act as an R help finder and object browser.
> Part of my .emacs configuration is given below.  
> 
> I've attached the configuration I use in my .emacs, but I'm not sure the
> attachment will go through (I'm using nabble to post). In any case, you can
> find it here, too:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AnythingSources#toc38
> 
> With this configuration, I hit F12, and it pops up a temporary buffer. In
> that buffer, it lists the current buffers, recent files, R objects, Imenu
> items (including R functions), files in the current directory, occur in the
> buffer (very handy), files on my disk (using locate), and emacs commands. I
> can use the left and right arrows to jump between categories and the up and
> down arrows to move between items. As I type, it narrows the selection to
> match the regular expression entered. For the R objects, if I hit <enter>,
> the default action brings up help on the object (as long as the buffer has
> an associated R process). If I hit tab, I can get more options, and I
> currently implemented head, tail, str, summary, dput, and print. The results
> all appear in their own buffer. This makes it a quick object browser, like
> rdired. It's a mouthful to explain, but it's easy once you see it.
> 
> (require 'anything)   ;; http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/anything.el
> (require 'anything-config) ;;
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/anything-config.el
> 
> (global-set-key [f12] 'anything)
> 
> (setq anything-sources
>       (list anything-c-source-buffers
>             anything-c-source-recentf
>             anything-c-source-R-help
>             anything-c-source-imenu
>             anything-c-source-files-in-current-dir
>             anything-c-source-occur
>             anything-c-source-locate
>             anything-c-source-emacs-commands
> ))
> 
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p20847205/R-anything-config.el
> R-anything-config.el 


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