Re: Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 31/08/2023 01:01, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov<dmitry@gutov.dev>  writes:
>
> > I previously posted a link to a screenshot from VS Code, here it is
> > again:
> > https://bobbyhadz.com/images/blog/rename-variable-vscode/refactor-preview.webp
> So fundamentally, it is a one-line diff along the lines of "git diff
> --word-diff", plus some folding, and check-boxes to select which diff
> chunks to apply.  Or is there more to it?

I don't know, I haven't tried this feature in VS Code yet. I'm not 
really using that editor.

It was actually a surprise for me that they do have some refactoring 
preview, and I think it'll be a good idea to explore its limitations 
experimentally.