Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij
by jolmg on Friday November 06, 2020 @11:50AM
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> That only works if the identifier name is unique across your files
hence
> It's not precise, so it might take some manual work and tweaking with the patterns
and like I said,
> for how often I've had to rename identifiers, it works good enough to handle the bulk work.
so
> You need an editor that can understand
No I don't, because renaming across many files is rare enough that I don't need it.
Most of the time, I do refactoring before it's gotten out of hand and so regular vim features like I mentioned in another comment are typically enough.
In other words, I think such understanding by the editor is too much complexity (and language-constrained, at that) for little reward.
hence
> It's not precise, so it might take some manual work and tweaking with the patterns
and like I said,
> for how often I've had to rename identifiers, it works good enough to handle the bulk work.
so
> You need an editor that can understand
No I don't, because renaming across many files is rare enough that I don't need it.
Most of the time, I do refactoring before it's gotten out of hand and so regular vim features like I mentioned in another comment are typically enough.
In other words, I think such understanding by the editor is too much complexity (and language-constrained, at that) for little reward.