Re: refactoring using parser

On Friday 20 November 2009 19:30:01 Kaleb Pederson wrote:
> > What features that are available in an IDE (e.g., Eclipse) are missing in
> > vim?
> 
> There's a lot, unfortunately. I wouldn't argue that they aren't
> possible in Vim, but it's not easy to find many of the subtle features
> present in any IDE that make it a joy to use (for that intended
> purpose):
> 
> * Refactoring.  At absolute minimum, I'd need the following:
>   * Rename (which may require renaming files)
>   * Move
>   * Extract Method
>   * Inline Method
>   * Pull up
>   * Extract Interface
> * View type hierarchy of currently selected instance / object
> * Continuous Test Runner (run unit tests in background on file save
> and display results)
> * Re-run only failed tests or certain test packages
> * Debug test, stopping at breakpoints, etc.
> * Instantaneous feedback on bad syntax and semantics
> * Find all references of * (an instance variable, a type, an interface,
>  etc.)

+1! As soon as I have to do work in a larger scope (with many files across 
different folders), I feel more comfortable with an IDE.


> I've thought about trying Eclim, but haven't yet.

Have you tried http://www.viplugin.com/viplugin/ ? It supports most of the 
basic vi commands I use and works quite well. 
 
And there's a new project Vrapper http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ which I 
haven't tried yet but sound promising as well.





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