Saturday, August 2, 2014

Elpy 1.5.0 released

I just released version 1.5.0 of Elpy, the Emacs Python Development Environment. This is a major feature release.

Elpy is an Emacs package to bring powerful Python editing to Emacs. It combines a number of other packages, both written in Emacs Lisp as well as Python.

Quick Installation

Evaluate this:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("elpy" .
               "http://jorgenschaefer.github.io/packages/"))

Then run M-x package-install RET elpy RET.

Finally, run the following (and add them to your .emacs):

(package-initialize)
(elpy-enable)

Changes in 1.5.0

  • Elpy now has a manual. Additionally, there's a menu bar now which should make it easier to discover Elpy features.
  • The Elpy Python package now ships with the Emacs Lisp package, removing the need to install Elpy via pip.
  • Python 3.4 is now officially supported.
  • The new command elpy-config can be used to configure Elpy using Emacs' built-in customize system. Elpy has been changed to make the most of this.
  • Elpy now uses company-mode instead of auto-complete for on-the-fly auto completion. This changes a few things. There is no automatic documentation popup anymore. Instead, you can type C-d and get the documentation buffer. In addition, you can type C-w to see the source of the current candidate in context.
  • Elpy now uses pyvenv as the virtualenv module, enabling virtualenvwrapper hooks.
  • We now ship with a large number of YASnippet snippets. Try ``M-x yas-insert-snippet``.
  • The new unified test running interface on C-c C-t will try to determine the current test and run it, or, failing that, run all tests. Provide a prefix argument to just run all tests no matter what. You can change the test runner to be used using elpy-set-test-runner. Elpy supports the default unittest discover runner, the Django discover runner, nosetests and py.test by default. New test runners can easily be defined.
  • There's a new multi-edit functionality. C-c C-e will edit all occurrences of the symbol under point. When using Jedi, this is using semantic information as opposed to just syntactic one. When a region is active, edit all occurrences of the text in region in the current buffer.
  • When sending Python code to the interactive interpreter using ``C-c C-c``, Elpy will now not automatically pop to the interpreter anymore. Use C-c C-z to switch to the interpreter.
  • Elpy will now display the current class and function if there is no call tip to be displayed. Removes the C-c C-q binding.
  • If there is a call tip, highlight the current argument (requires Jedi).
  • The documentation interface using C-c C-d is much smarter now, falling back to pydoc when necessary and providing sensible completion for that, too. Provide a prefix argument if you want no smarts, just pydoc.
  • and now open a line below or above the current one.
  • will now navigate between Python blocks of the same indentation level. will move the current block. Try it, it's easier to understand when you see it than to explain it.
  • There's a new concept of modules. The variable elpy-default-minor-modes is gone (use elpy-mode-hook for minor modes). Instead, there's now elpy-modules which can be used to enable or disable certain features of Elpy.
  • elpy-clean-modeline is gone, modules now clean themselves up.
  • Elpy now distinguishes between the project root, where project files are located, and the library root, which should be part of sys.path to import the module under development.
  • elpy-project-ignored-directories replaces the old elpy-rgrep-ignored-directories and is used by more features.
  • elpy-doc-websearch has been removed as it was barely useable as is.
  • Elpy now tries to be more helpful when errors in the backend happen. This removes elpy-rpc-traceback, as that will be displayed by default.
  • Optimizations were added to handle large files, making general interaction a lot faster.
  • When Rope is being used, do not search through unusually large directories. This should speed up interaction in those cases, especially when editing a file in the home directory.
  • And a whole lot of minor bug fixes and little improvements.