ropemacs 0.3

An emacs mode for using rope refactoring library

Ropemacs is an emacs mode that uses rope library to provide features like refactorings and code-assists. You should install rope library and pymacs before using ropemacs.

New Features

• Find occurrences; C-c f

• Lucky-assist; M-?

• Setting many configs using batchset in dialogs

• Showing the old value of a field in dialogs

• New file/directory/module/package; C-x p n [fdmp]

• Edit project config; C-x p c

• Updating buffers with moved files after refactorings

• Extracting similar pieces defaults to yes in extract refactorings

Setting Up

You can get pymacs from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/pymacs/. But version 0.22 does not work with Python 2.5 because of the lack of file encoding declarations. A simple patch is included: docs/pymacs_python25.patch.

After installing pymacs, add these lines to your ~/.emacs file:

(require 'pymacs)
(pymacs-load "ropemacs" "rope-")
(rope-init)

Rope registers its local keys using python-mode hook. If you don’t want to use rope with python-mode you can add rope-register-local-keys lisp function to some other hook.

If you want to load ropemacs only when you really need it, you can use a function like this instead of that:

(defun load-ropemacs ()
  "Load pymacs and ropemacs"
  (interactive)
  (require 'pymacs)
  (pymacs-load "ropemacs" "rope-")
  (rope-init)
  ;; Automatically save project python buffers before refactorings
  (setq rope-confirm-saving 'nil)
)

And execute load-ropemacs whenever you want to use ropemacs. Also if you don’t want to install rope library and ropemacs you can extract them somewhere and add these lines to your .emacs:

;; Add this before loading pymacs if you haven't installed rope and ropemacs
(setq pymacs-load-path '("/home/ali/projects/rope"
                         "/home/ali/projects/ropemacs"))