Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[João Távora]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 1:46 PM Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com> wrote:
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> João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Also, it would be very good if we could have an early backend which is
> > *not* LSP.  An obvious candidate is Elisp.
>
> FWIW, I think `sweeprolog`, my NonGNU ELPA package for SWI-Prolog can
> also a good non-LSP backend.  Elisp would be perfect, no doubt.
> But `sweeprolog` is interesting because it does a lot of code analysi
[...]
> insert a new name, and it renames the variable at once.  That's alright
> for renaming local variables, but it would be great to simply plug in to
> a generic refactoring UI.

Great.  Precise project-wide analysis (as opposed to more-or-less dumb
grep-based) is exactly the main thing we should be targeting IMO.
 Is "rename" the only thing it does or can you, say, extract subexpressions
to variables, organize imports, etc?

> So I can probably try and implement any "refactoring backend functions"
> the new refactoring interface includes, and see how it goes.

Sounds like a plan!

João