Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Yuri Khan]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 at 08:20, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> wrote:

> If we had a better UI for renaming than query-replace, we could plug it
> into project-find-regexp and xref-find-references' output buffers.
>
> Where you currently can hit 'r' to switch to renaming action, it could
> instead show the proposed operation (in some fashion) and how the text
> will look "after". That would cover the regexp-replace and the
> rename-symbol refactorings. Just the basics, but still. Those could also
> be combined into separate commands (such as
> xref-find-references-and-replace).

Renaming is already possible in Eglot, with the following UI: You
stand on a symbol and invoke eglot-rename. It asks you for the new
name, then does the right thing.