object browser in emacs

[Steffen Ries]

hzhu at rocket.knowledgetrack.com (Huaiyu Zhu) writes:

> I just realized the folowing interesting thing: If you enable jde mode for
> java, you can use the speedbar which lists objects in a convenient tree in a
> separate window.  Now if you edit python code it automatically lists python
> objects (including all python modules in the directory).  Really cool.
> 
> Is the speedbar a part of jde-mode that happens to also work in python-mode,
> or is it a language-neutral app?  Can I ask python-mode to use it
> automatically?

Speedbar is independent of jde. It basically understands every
language, which supports `imenu.el', which includes C, C++, emacs-lisp
and of course python.

If I'm not mistaken, since emacs-20.5 it is part of the standard
distribution (before you had to install it yourself).

hth,
/steffen
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