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

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**Category:** New to Julia\
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**Created:** [February 22, 2022, 8:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-have-a-variable-explorer-in-julia/76891 "2022-02-22T08:57:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-have-a-variable-explorer-in-julia/76891/7 "2022-02-22T14:18:11Z")

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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](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-interactivecodesearch-jl-interactively-search-julia-code/17657):
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> Let me introduce my package [InteractiveCodeSearch.jl](https://github.com/tkf/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…

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