I've attempted to use emacs for email and failed

I want to get excited about guix, because (shocker) i like lisp. But i get really nervous because i don't understand the arguments about free software and they seem to be too "consuming" for me, like if i have spare energy i'm going to go jog, not worry about nuclearwarglobalwarmingandalotofotherpain. Or at least free software issues rank fairly low on the list for me. But at the same time, i get the impression a lot of lock in services do so because they have lost their competitive edge.

I bet I could observe this in nature, if i knew how to look.

I just got a lot farther with helm and projectile and it’s a game changer! The one thing I’m still struggling with is getting a buffer up that would show all functions in a project organized by file that has fuzzy narrowing by typing. I often forget which file a particular function is in and this would help me a lot. Any thoughts?

helm + ctags?

(or etags)

Another and different need (but this is a bit out there and may not exist): is there any way to see a tree of function calls in a buffer? What I mean is, if (foo) calls (bar) and (biz)… and (biz) calls (baz)… I should be perhaps able to get a textual tree of those calls that I could navigate and jump to the defn for them. All the better if I could browse down the tree and see the defn’s in a buffer open to the side without the pointer going there… sometimes called ‘peeking’. Any other approaches to this are welcome. I spend a lot of time walking my code base with jump-to and then I have to get back. (part of the problem I am trying to solve is from my poor code organization and, probably, using functions in too imperative a style; getting better at those aspects will also help).