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alwaysLearn
alwaysLearn

Reputation: 6950

Can the GitHub Atom editor show properties and functions of classes?

Recently I moved from NetBeans to GitHub Atom editor. How can I access properties and functions of classes in the editor?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 6390

Answers (3)

Yoryo
Yoryo

Reputation: 270

In addition to all the previous answers, I would recommend you to check Atom's package goto-definition, with its optional "performance mode" (which requires you to install ripgrep).

goto-definition will allow you to find and access properties and functions/classes definitions even if they are not written in the same file. In combination with ripgrep, goto-definition is extremely fast, and you will not have to wait for file indexing within your project.

Upvotes: 1

fedorshishi
fedorshishi

Reputation: 1477

I use a mix with the symbol gen and symbols view packages. First one very good about generating ctag file for your project and second one for inspect code and jump to the definitions of tags. Also, it supports Show all symbols in current file future. It have to show for you the members and properties of your classes.

In short: after installation open a work directory with your project and try alt + cmd + g, wait several seconds, ctags file generating now for you and after that cmd + r and just start typing any part of a method or property in the input.

Upvotes: 2

nwinkler
nwinkler

Reputation: 54457

If you are referring to the members of a Java class (which I assume, since you've used NetBeans before), then this is currently not supported in Atom.

Atom is a (fairly simple) editor that allows you to edit text files, while full-blown IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) like Eclipse, NetBeans or IntelliJ IDEA have full language support including running, debugging and browsing Java class information. It might be better to stick with one of the IDEs I mentioned if you are looking for this kind of functionality.

Having said that, there's the https://atom.io/packages/atom-ctags package, which supposedly can show some meta information about classes you're working on. It's primarily for C++, although it might work for Java as well (I haven't tried).

Upvotes: 0

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