From: "Randy W. Sims" <ml-ruby@...>
Date: 2004-11-14T02:03:12+09:00
Subject: Re: For Emacs Users ... (Was: Trivial trick for looking at complex code)

Jim Weirich wrote:
> On Friday 12 November 2004 06:30 pm, Hal Fulton wrote:
> 
>>You'd be surprised how helpful this is:
>>
>>   grep -E "^ *(class|module|attr|def)" file.rb
> 
> 
> Oh, excellent!  What a great way to outline your ruby code.
> 
> 
>>OK, it's not rocket science, but I felt like sharing it.
> 
> 
> You can also do this in emacs ...
> 
>     M-X grep RET grep -n -RE "^ *(class|module|attr|def)"  lib RET
> 
> And you will get a grep buffer with the tagged outline.  Just middle mouse 
> click on any line in the grep buffer and emacs will automatically go to that 
> file and line number.  Great for browsing code.

In emacs, I like using imenu[1]. I just hold shift while pressing the 
right mouse button and I get a popup list of all classes and methods.
speedbar[2] is nice also, but it unfortunately doesn't have ruby support.

1. <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ImenuMode>
2. <http://cedet.sourceforge.net/speedbar.shtml>