On Apr 5, 10:56 am, Frank Siebenlist <frank.siebenl...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I still remember the first time I was introduced to Smalltalk, when my 
> colleague demonstrated the class-browser - it was one of those jaw-dropping 
> moments: all that information at your finger-tips of a live- and living 
> system…
>
> Guess nowadays it's more nostalgia than anything else, but in many ways that 
> Smalltalk development environment is still a hard act to follow.
>
> Hopefully this Clojure Namespace Browser will get us one small step closer to 
> our ultimate development environment (… although I'm sure that some of you 
> emacs-gurus believe you're already there ;-) ).
>
> The graphical browser should give you easier access to the documentation 
> strings of all the vars in your live clojure project, as well as the source 
> code, and clojuredocs' examples&comments. You can get all that info from the 
> repl, but hopefully this browser should make it easier to … browse, explore, 
> and find stuff in Clojure's vast collection of libraries.
>
> The installation is dead-simple - just add:
>
>   :dev-development [[clj-ns-browser "1.0.0"]]
>
> to your project.clj file, start your repl, evaluate (use 
> 'clj-ns-browser.sdoc), and then (sdoc), and your up and running with this 
> namespace browser always one click or (sdoc…) away…
>
> Caveat… it all works well on my MacOSX, but I have seen some issues with 
> Lubuntu and missing "unloaded namespaces" - also I haven't tested it on 
> windoze or other OS-flavors. So you mileage may vary…
>
> The code and some more info with some screenshots are available at:
>
> https://github.com/franks42/clj-ns-browser
>
> Finally, kudos to Dave Ray and his Seesaw - fantastic tool and near real-time 
> support on the mailing list.
> (this has essentially been a 2 week project after Clojure-Conj/West - an 
> "after the kids are asleep" project - no experience with Swing… a testament 
> of how good seesaw is as an abstraction tool…)
>
> Please let me know if it works for you, and suggestions and feedback are more 
> than welcome.

Checked this out few days ago. Impressive and very nice!

Shantanu

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