Take a look at the refactorings available in CLion: https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/features/code-generation-and-refactorings.html https://www.jetbrains.com/cli

Take a look at the refactorings available in CLion: https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/features/code-generation-and-refactorings.html https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/features/code-generation-and... Refactoring tools are incredibly powerful. For example, renaming a class method "foo". You can rename it yourself with a text editor, but now you have to manually update all the callers. You could try using search/replace, but what if several unrelated classes have a "foo" method? How do you only change the correct method calls? The IDE refactoring tool does this automatically.