And you only got GCC. There was someone who tried to implement refactoring support for emacs based on gcc, since there already was a llvm based implementation a

And you only got GCC. There was someone who tried to implement refactoring support for emacs based on gcc, since there already was a llvm based implementation and that obviously wasn't GNU enough. Stallman left him hanging for a year before telling him to stop because it would expose too many gcc internals. He ended up killing the discussion when too many people disagreed with his assertion that text base search and replace was good enough.