Oh and it also works well with packages loaded with devtools::load_all(). Use C-c C-w i to install a package with srcrefs and C-c C-w l to load it with load_all(). Then M-x xref-find-definitions should work when cursor is on a function name.
Lionel > On 22 juin 2018, at 11:15, Stephen Eglen via ESS-help > <ess-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > what are people using (if anything) to find declarations of R functions > within Emacs buffers? e.g. when point is on the name of a function, you > hit a keybinding to look up the definiton of that function. > > I just had some success with using dumb-jump.el > https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump -- it has a notion of a project > folder within which it will search for R function definitions > dynamically using a grep variant. (It doesn't always work -- e.g. I > can't yet get it to fund hidden functions that begin with a period, > since I think it does not recognise the . as beginning of a word.) > > But I'm just wondering if others had success with other packages? We > mention TAGS files in our ESS documentation, and rtags. > > Stephen > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help