Emacs project management for Scala

Question

I would like to ask if any of you have any experience {and,or} could point me to a project management extension for Emacs that works well with {Scala,Ensime,SBT}. It would also be amazing if it didn't require too much hacking. I did some scheme in the past but I have little experience with the Emacs platform.

Basically, by project management I mean mainly the ability to 'tie files into project' and then search among them (and only among them).

Thanks for taking the time to read this and answer!

Stet

You will likely get better answers if you are more specific about your question. – Halfassed

Ok, i reworked my question. Removed all the fluff, hopefully it's better now :) – Stet

Answer 1

I really hate that you can't setup projects out of the box, though.

Just set up the project with sbt or maven and import it with ensime.

Essentially, what i would want is to be able to flex-find files in the project

"flex-find" is not English, so I don't really know what you mean. But what is wrong with find (the command line tool)?

Sprue

Answer 2

With ensime you can load your project and then search for a type or method by name. The key sequence is C-c C-v v. This allows you to, for example, jump directly to a class definition.

Kenward

Hmm, is there any way to jump into the source the class is in? – Stet

Yes, it jumps into the source when you hit <enter>. (Maybe you need to configure Ensime with the top-level source directory?) – Kenward

hmm, it only shows to me the class api (methods, traits etc.) I will tinker with it for a bit. Thanks a lot for the answer though, it's pretty much what i'm looking for. – Stet

Answer 3

The package projectile has a bunch of generic project-level features, such as running commands in the project root folder, grepping, creating TAGS files etc.

I'm a relatively new user of it, so I can't say exactly how big a difference it makes, but it seems like a worthwhile addition to your tool belt.

Pina