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It's not about what UNIX can theoretically do. Yeah, sure, you can refactor a method over a socket, I guess, just as you could use VBA macros in Excel to write

It's not about what UNIX can theoretically do. Yeah, sure, you can refactor a method over a socket, I guess, just as you could use VBA macros in Excel to write a Tetris game using spreadsheet cells as block. The question is whether there is actually good refactoring support on the UNIX command line that can compete directly with the likes of ReSharper or IntelliJ IDEA? I haven't seen anything coming close to that yet. The fact is, there are actually a few implementations of Tetris and Breakout for Excel, and probably a few command line refactoring tools here and there. But just as no one is going to play a clunky Tetris game in Excel just for the novelty of it, I don't see myself using an inconvenient and limited command-line refactoring tool.

mixedCase 10y ago
> The question is whether there is actually good refactoring support on the UNIX command line that can compete directly with the likes of ReSharper or IntelliJ IDEA? I haven't seen anything coming close to that yet. There's nothing stopping people from making it. IDEA Community is open source; I haven't looked at the code but I trust it can be decoupled and made into a separate utility. If you want an example that's out there, Go has support for refactoring via tools like eg and gorename, and you can use them in an IDE, in a text editor or in a terminal with nothing more than GNU coreutils.
- unscaled 10y ago
  Then people can just go ahead make it, instead of complaining about lazy developers locking themselves into Jetbrains tools or eclipse or trying to do everything from within Emacs or Vim. Right now you've got very basic refactoring tools for Go and JRefactor. Maybe a few other tools I don't know. But in that case I don't see what's the point of running this tool from the CLI instead of configuring VIM/Emacs/{insert your favourite IDE or Editor} to run it on the function under your cursor with just a few keystrokes.

mixedCase 10y ago

> The question is whether there is actually good refactoring support on the UNIX command line that can compete directly with the likes of ReSharper or IntelliJ IDEA? I haven't seen anything coming close to that yet. There's nothing stopping people from making it. IDEA Community is open source; I haven't looked at the code but I trust it can be decoupled and made into a separate utility. If you want an example that's out there, Go has support for refactoring via tools like eg and gorename, and you can use them in an IDE, in a text editor or in a terminal with nothing more than GNU coreutils.

unscaled 10y ago
Then people can just go ahead make it, instead of complaining about lazy developers locking themselves into Jetbrains tools or eclipse or trying to do everything from within Emacs or Vim. Right now you've got very basic refactoring tools for Go and JRefactor. Maybe a few other tools I don't know. But in that case I don't see what's the point of running this tool from the CLI instead of configuring VIM/Emacs/{insert your favourite IDE or Editor} to run it on the function under your cursor with just a few keystrokes.