I think you misunderstood what refactoring means in an IDE. Suppose you want to rename a method. There might be many other methods of the same name in different

I think you misunderstood what refactoring means in an IDE. Suppose you want to rename a method. There might be many other methods of the same name in different classes, local variables of that name in other methods, or even classes with that same name in differen packages. Eclipse automatically does all of this for you. I honestly don't understand how regexps and strong bookmarking skills could help you - the editor needs true knowledge of the language to carry out this task.