Refactoring is a must-have feature and no IDE supports it yet about areweideyet HOT 12 OPEN

Apparently intellij-rust has partial support for refactoring (source).

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Gladly :)

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Actually, this is the reason why I did not add it (yet).

But I see the point that IDE users expect it to be there... maybe adding it below the list as information is better.

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rust.vim has refactoring support, with rustfmt. Is that what you mean, @SoniEx2 ?

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@rosshadden Can you automatically rename a function?

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No idea, sorry. I don't actually use or like autoformatting code, I just know that rustfmt normalizes whitespace and some other things. I should probably have stayed silent since I don't know anything about it or what you were looking for.

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@rosshadden Say you have a function f, and your project has well over 500 files. Say this function f is very important to your project and so it is used a lot. Say you wanna rename it to g.

Now you have to go to every one of those 500 files and replace all calls to f with calls to g.

However, with refactoring, you rightclick the function f, click rename, type in g, and it does all that for you.

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Oh, okay, that makes sense. I've always used sed for such things, but I do know (and appreciate) what you're referring to. tern for JavaScript has that functionality, and I thought it was very cool, just never ended up implementing it into my workflow.

Cool!

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intellij-rusts refactoring is pretty powerful nowadays.

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Would you accept a PR adding refactoring info, now that some IDEs support it ?

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@cyplo Do you know offhand which IDEs do have support so far?

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Hi, CLion with Rust plugin supports some simpler refactorings, not sure about the others.

It may be interesting to have a more detailed view there on the website, listing some popular refactoring and which IDE supports which ?
E.g. extract function vs extract module vs inline function etc ?

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