Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Alexander Adolf]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> [...]
> I don't know. One issue is that for a multi-file refactoring you would 
> want to see all the changes in one place.

Yes, one would want that indeed.

It would be similar to an indirect buffer, but based on a list of
(buffer . (region-beg region-end)) tuples.

> OTOH, if we were talking about a more compact diff, 'git diff' has a 
> thing called "word diff" which doesn't take up two lines for one change 
> (the modification is shown in-line).

That's the reason I name-dropped visual-regexp; the change is shown
in-line there, too.


  --alexander