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Re:Vim Creep (2011) by cracksmoka420 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:40PM (#25401981)
> But you see that’s exactly what you are, because you can’t refactor Java code with what you call “Unix tools”.

"refactoring java code" is really not an exceptional task that vim (or emacs) cannot handle.

In situations where grep -r is too stupid, ctags exists.

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Re:Vim Creep (2011) by cyberdelica on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:22PM (#25402331)
As well as ctags, one can also use the GNU "idutils" suite of programs.
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