idutils and Python

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Thanks for the answer. I had read about PyDev and its extenssions but,
if at all possible, I'd like to keep working with Emacs (or Vim)
instead of Eclipse, and I'd rather use free/open source software.

Best,

R.

On 8/23/06, Fabio Zadrozny <fabiofz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > > What exactly are you trying to accomplish?  If you want to index
> > > function/class names, variables, etc then you should take a look at
> > > "exuberant ctags" http://ctags.sourceforge.net53 --although it started
> > > off as a C indexer, it has excellent Python support, it's free, and as
> > > a bonus its indices are well supported from inside major editors (vim,
> > > emacs, etc) so you can easily follow code flow, find function/class
> > > definitions, etc.
> >
> >
> > Sorry for not being clear enough. I want the following:
> >
> > a) have my editor go to the point where a function/whatever is defined
>
>
>  Pydev Extensions (http://www.fabioz.com/pydev) should do that without any
> problems with F3 (it first tries a 'context-sensitive' match, trying to find
> it in locals, globals, current class, etc and if not found like that, it
> goes and looks for the signature in a context-insensitive way, as if it was
> a simple text-search)
>
>
> > b) see all places where a function/whatever is used.
>
>
>  This can be handed pretty well with the search that is builtin into Eclipse
> (ctrl+h).
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Fabio
>


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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Bioinformatics Unit
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
http://ligarto.org/rdiaz