Find reference type on classpath

[Ivan Willig]

Hi list,
I often run into this issue where I am follow a Java documentation where they developers fail to explain where they import packages from.  In most Java IDE's you can search your classpath for reference types. It would be great is if was possible to do the same in slime. I looked around the docs but was unable to find and insights on how do to this.

Does anyone have a way of searching for reference types from within slime/emacs?

Ivan Willig

[Phil Hagelberg]

You can use M-. over an identifier to jump to its definition. This is
totally unrelated to reference types, but sort of sounds like what you
want. Your question is a bit muddled, though.

-Phil

[Michael Wood]

I think what he's saying is that if he finds a chunk of code somewhere
(e.g. on a blog or a tutorial) it often doesn't have the imports
listed, so he has to figure out which imports are needed. Java IDEs
have a way to dig through your classpath looking for classes used in
the code and generate or suggest import statements for you.

I'm sure I've seen something on this list about someone doing
something similar for Clojure.

Ivan, perhaps digging through the list archives will turn up something.

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Michael Wood <esio...@gmail.com>