alep / jedi-starter

Get started with Jedi and Emacs

Jedi Starter Kit

This starter kit lets you play with Jedi from the safety of a virtual machine. You'll need Vagrant and VirtualBox to get this working. I haven't checked exhaustively, but it seems to work fine with VirtualBox 4.2.16 and Vagrant 1.4.3.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   $ git clone [e-mail]:wernerandrew/jedi-starter.git
   

2. Provision the VM and ssh in:

   $ cd jedi-starter
   $ vagrant up
   $ vagrant ssh
   

3. Open Emacs, which should install the packages.

4. Execute M-x jedi:install-server from within Emacs.

The provisioning step will softlink ~/.emacs in the VM to jedi-starter.el in your shared directory. You can edit that file if you want to try out tweaks to the default config.

Using Jedi

This version includes my (Drew) preferred keybindings for jedi-mode. Additionally, the in-function tooltip pops up only on demand (a bit of a hack, via the jedi:get-in-function-call-delay variable). If you want to stick with the defaults, you can comment out or remove the following lines from jedi-starter.el:

(setq jedi:get-in-function-call-delay 10000000)
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'jedi-config:setup-keys)

The major keybinds (default and custom) can be summarized as follows:

Command	Default	Custom
jedi:goto-definition	C-c .	M-.
jedi:goto-definition-pop-marker	C-c ,	M-,
jedi:show-doc	C-c ?	M-?
jedi:get-in-function-call	None	M-/

Tips for non-virtualenv users

If you can't use virtualenv (which may be the case for Anaconda users), you may want to try the following:

1. You'll still need pip to install some dependencies; try easy_install pip if you don't have it.

2. You'll need to install jedi and epc manually:

   $ pip install epc
   $ pip install jedi
   

3. Right after (require 'jedi) in your init file, include the following:

   (setq jedi-config:use-system-python t)
   

(Note that this all assumes you're using substantially all of the configuration code in jedi-config.el, including helper functions and defined config variables.)