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Refactoring support has nothing to do with IDEs. Nothing. An IDE is, well, an integrated development environment - I find the idea of mashing my editor, VCS,
by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Refactoring support has nothing to do with IDEs. Nothing.
An IDE is, well, an integrated development environment - I find the idea of mashing my editor, VCS, build system, debugger, etc. into one tool to be incredibly distasteful.
What you want is a competent editor. Unfortunately, most editors that provide support for things like automated refactoring are bundled into IDEs, hence your confusion.
- billmcneale 16y ago> Refactoring support has nothing to do with IDEs. Nothing. Uh? The strength of an IDE is that it understands your code. It knows what a method, a class, a variable, a package is. Because of that, it can give you more assistance in writing your code than any editor that bases its highlighting on regular expressions ever will.