Is there a way to have a Variable Explorer in Julia?

[juliohm]

I remember seeing recent announcements of packages that could help with interactive exploration of Julia objects and code. I could only find this one in my quick search now, but there are others:

ANN: InteractiveCodeSearch.jl --- Interactively search Julia code

Let me introduce my package InteractiveCodeSearch.jl. It helps you searching Julia code. [gif animation] Julia has @edit, @less, etc. which are very handy for reading the implementation of functions. However, you need to specify a “good enough” set of (type) parameters for them to find the location of the code. Instead, InteractiveCodeSearch provides a few macros to interactively choose the code you want to read. Features: Interactively choose a method signature before opening the code lo…