I think that a tool like this will, with time, become much more efficient than a simple search replace. As mentioned in my sibling, there are edge cases which n

I think that a tool like this will, with time, become much more efficient than a simple search replace. As mentioned in my sibling, there are edge cases which need thought, and a proper refactoring tool will excel. I'd love to see a tool like this start to support a bunch of complex refactorings, especially on a project level. With time, it could start to support a bunch of nice things which make it easier to use, such as aliases or readline support for auto-completion, etc. People may then write plugins or scripts for various editors such as vim to make various refactorings even simpler to use. Of course, this is all wild speculation, but it is what I would love to see. I hope it works out very well, because I am a massive fan of the refactoring in the IntelliJ PHP plugin/PHPStorm.