Re: Refactoring in Emacs : CEDET

[Eric M. Ludlam]

On 08/01/2012 12:14 AM, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> On 07/31/2012 10:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > > IIUC real refactoring of C should imply preprocessing and full
> > > syntactic analysis
> >
> > Why is that? Can you give a couple of examples?

Hi,

  I missed earlier parts of this thread, so am replying a bit late.

  In CEDET, the function 'semantic-symref-symbol' uses the C parser 
built into semantic, plus external tools like GNU Global, or just plain 
grep to find symbols.  The list buffer that shows all the hits is also a 
refactoring mode.  You can select which hits are correct, and do mass 
renames.  It also has a fancy way to create a keyboard macro that it 
will apply to all the hits.

  I'm describing the state of things in the CEDET bzr repository.  I 
don't recall what state this mode was in when CEDET was last merged into 
Emacs.  The symref functions certainly has some limitations as it tends 
to stick to symbols defined by the user, and the code to handle 
polymorphism hasn't been written yet, but those could be overcome if 
there was sufficient interest.

Eric