Hello,
Emacs is my favorite IDE and I use it all the
time. I'd like to extend it some and was wondering if I could get
some ideas on what it would take to add drop down menus to the Python-mode (and
other modes that I work in too) in order to create auto-completion of callable
objects. I'm no IDE expert but I think this would be really handy for me
and probably others too.
Essentially if I was to type --
some_instance.some_func()
when I type the '.' (period) I'd like a popup menu
to be displayed with the potential callable objects from which I could select
one.
I gather that this will require the buffer to know
what callables are available for a particular class. I think this means
that for example in Python-mode, Emacs (on importing of a particular Python
module) could scan a module for all the classes and functions available for
those classes and retain collections of these callables. I'm not sure how
I could get Emacs to know that a certain 'symbol' equated to a particular class
but, the mode would have to be able to do that. For example:
aKlass =
MyClass() ----- the mode will have to know that aKlass
is an instance of MyClass and therefore can call all its methods.
If anyone knows whether this has been done please
let me know before I embark down the path. Any advice you have regarding
this will be much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Fellow emacsian,
Mike Garcia