Project/code browser

[jorgenschaefer]

This seems to be rather important to people (no idea why), and speedbar is terrible. The options I've seen are sr-speedbar, which inherits some of the ickiness of speedbar, and direx-el, which is experimental … meh.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/sr-speedbar.el https://github.com/m2ym/direx-el

[jorgenschaefer]

Atom uses C-0 to "open and focus tree view" and C-\ to "toggle tree view"

[whirm]

I use helm with this snippet for quick project browsing (it's not perfect, but it's very handy) It also includes all the TODO entries on the current file. I don't know if you would be willing to add helm/projectile as dependencies tough...

                        (defun helm-mini-devel ()
                          "helm-mini for prog-modes (TODO entries, helm-projectile, buffers and recentf)"
                          (interactive)
                          (require 'helm-files)
                          (require 'helm-misc)
                          (require 'helm-projectile)
                          (let ((helm-ff-transformer-show-only-basename nil))
                            (helm-other-buffer '(helm-source-fixme
                                                 helm-source-projectile-buffers-list
                                                 helm-source-projectile-recentf-list
                                                 helm-source-projectile-files-list
                                                 helm-source-buffers-list
                                                 helm-source-recentf
                                                 helm-source-buffer-not-found)
                                               "*helm mini devel*")))

[jorgenschaefer]

Thank you! As an optional dependency, neither helm nor projectile should be a problem. As a default configuration, I'd like to have some significant benefits. Currently, elpy uses find-file-in-project with ido, which works ok. I suspect your helm solution is very similar in effect. Though I like how it combines different sources, and the TODO entries are a nice touch. :-)

I have to admit I'm not really sure why people use these project browsers (I mean the "typical tree structure" ones), so I'm not sure what the use case is or what would replace it for these users.

[whirm]

I guess they only make sense if you use your mouse to browse the project tree.

[jorgenschaefer]

Another project: https://github.com/sabof/project-explorer

[whirm]

Looks nice, it uses projectile and has helm compatibility that would be good enough for me.

[jorgenschaefer]

Another one: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NeoTree

[jorgenschaefer]

emacs-jedi uses direx: https://github.com/tkf/emacs-jedi-direx/blob/master/jedi-direx.el

[jorgenschaefer]

And another candidate: https://github.com/fourier/ztree/