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

[Short, Tom]

As far as the .Rnw file, someone who knows more about that may be able to comment more. I tried an Rnw file, and anything-mode worked after I set the default code mode to R-mode (before that, I wasn't getting the ESS menu). If you see the ESS menu in the menu bar, and the file has an associated R process, I think it should work.

- Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Basille [mailto:basille at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr] 
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 11:44 AM
To: Short, Tom
Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [ESS] Using anything.el for R help / object browsing

Thanks Tom, it now works beautifully! The solution was quite obvious, 
but as Emacs was running without errors, I thought that the problem was 
not anymore in the .emacs...
I can now browse through buffers, Imenus items, Files, R objects. This 
is quite impressive. I guess I now just have to get used to it.

Oh, one more thing: for any reason, if I'm in a .Rnw file (associated or 
not to a R buffer), the completion/selection does not work at all. It 
does work, however, in .R .tex or other text files... I really don't see 
where the problem is, though. Any idea?

Rodney, thanks for the warning. I'm not using SAS anyway, and I'm quite 
sure that F12 was not used before.

Mathieu.


Short, Tom a écrit :
> 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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