Clear steps to install pymacs with emacs 24?

Question

I want autocompletion and refactoring in emacs with python.

I gather that I need rope to do this. To do this with emacs, I need ropemacs. Ropmacs depends on pymacs.

Pymacs is hard to install...or at least the instructions are not clear to me.

Do I need to do two things? Install pymacs and then install a file that tells emacs to talk to pymacs? I've already installed rope and ropemacs super easily, with

pip install rope ropemacs

Here's what I did:

pip install -e "git+https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs.git#egg=Pymacs"

This installs ok on mac os x mountain lion according to PIP.

But I have a feeling that I am not done--or am I?

How do I test to see if pymacs and rope and ropemacs are all working?

Answer 1

I think the easiest way to install ropemacs is to use el-get: M-x el-get-install ropemacs. It installs and build Pymacs, rope and ropemacs. I know that it works on Linux. See the el-get document for more information. (disclaimer: I wrote the installation recipe for el-get so obviously I am biased to my solution)

The difference from the solution using pip is that it setups the Emacs side of Pymacs correctly.