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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? |
| Date | 2015-06-05 17:30 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mksmbl$t4s$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 08:06:32 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 6/4/2015 5:00 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 21:26:04 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> [sorry if duplicate post]
>>>
>>> On 5/26/2015 6:36 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> > On Tue, 26 May 2015 17:21:32 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:
>>> >> This is a more precise operation than a global
>>> >> search-and-replace,
>>> >> because the IDE can distinguish one `x' from another: If I rename
>>> >> one of my instance fields from `x' to `columnIndex', the IDE
>>> >> won't mess up the references to `x' in some other class like
>>> >> java.awt.Point.
>>> >>
>>> > I normally use microEmacs, which can do almost that:
>>> >
>>> > me org/gregorie/newproject/*.java
>>> >
>>> > Then tell it once only what I want it to replace and what with
>>> > just once and it works through all the files. I've never
>>> > discovered a limit to the number of files it can load. As a bonus
>>> > the search term can be a regex.
>>>
>>> Yes. But can it distinguish between different x's based on the meaning
>>> of the code within the files being edited?
>>>
>> No, unlike vi, where once you start an "s/x/y/" request running you
>> can't interfere, microEmacs approach is to ask what you want to do at
>> each match. The options are do it, skip this one, abandon (and it has
>> an undo facility) or to get on and do the lot. This lets you pick and
>> choose which matches to replace if you know that not all hits need
>> replacing (your 'x' case), or if you know that all should be replaced,
>> to check that the first one or two are working as expected and then let
>> it do the rest without asking.
>
> So, you get to see
>
> int value = things[i].x;
>
> ... and then you answer "yes" or "no?"
>
All are single keystrokes Y/y to make the change, N/n to skip it, Ctrl/C
to abort, ! to do the rest without prompts. I don't see what's hard about
that.
> Trust me, Martin: An IDE will do this *much* more easily and *much*
> more accurately than what you've described, because the IDE knows what
> type `things[i]' is, even if the declaration is four hundred lines away
> from the point of use.
>
So, how's that different from what almost any good editor?
About the only things I've seen that an IDE (IntelliJ, arounf Java 5 or 6
time) could do better that a good editor were some types of refactoring,
and that was offset by less flexibility in search and replace operations.
--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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