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!

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)?

Answer 2

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

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.