Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij
by EdwardDiego on Thursday November 05, 2020 @07:57PM
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Sure IDEA is primarily aimed at the JVM market, but I use IDEA's refactorings in Python, Go, Bash etc.
And I'm unsure about your point about meaningful names - IDEA typically won't suggest a name when renaming an existing language artifact - type, class, object, method, function etc.
It will when extracting an expression into a variable, based on the context it was derived from, and that's actually a pretty good heuristic - e.g., if the expression being extracted is
<some_var> = dependency.get_campaign_results()
It'll suggest things like
campaign_results
campaigns
results
Most of which are what a developer would usually use in that situation.
And I'm unsure about your point about meaningful names - IDEA typically won't suggest a name when renaming an existing language artifact - type, class, object, method, function etc.
It will when extracting an expression into a variable, based on the context it was derived from, and that's actually a pretty good heuristic - e.g., if the expression being extracted is
It'll suggest things like Most of which are what a developer would usually use in that situation.