I haven't attempted any code manipulation, just analysis and indexing, but I embarked on a similar idea here: https://github.com/duelinmarkers/insfactor and here: http://github.com/duelinmarkers/insfactor.el. (Nothing Vim-related there, the similar part is trying to put as much as possible of the smarts into the same JVM as the project.) It indexes a simple clojure project and provides a find-usages command, the idea being that find-usages is the first useful step toward rename-var and move-var commands. (I say "simple" because it still barfs on some common stuff, including defprotocol, IIRC.)
Focusing on what you're doing in http://github.com/cgag/nrepl-refactor, the mess I came upon and backed away from when I initially played with transforming code in Clojure is that the forms are easy to manipulate but formatting is hard to maintain. There are also several non-whitespace bits of source that the reader will hide away from you (including comments and #_ forms) but that a proper refactoring tool won't clobber. If you haven't already, you might take a look at https://github.com/cgrand/sjacket. I've been hoping that the new https://github.com/clojure/tools.analyzer work will support some of what source manipulation tools are likely to need, but I haven't looked into it. For example, one hassle with jvm.tools.analyzer (at least the now outdated version I've been using) is that the reader doesn't provide line and column metadata in many places where you'd expect to find it. Another is that it can only show you the post-macro-expansion view of the world. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Curtis Gagliardi <gagliardi.cur...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hey everyone, I just wanted to get some feedback on whether or not this is > a good idea. I've seen clj-refactor.el recommended a decent amount, but as > a dyed-in-the-wool take-no-prisoners vim user, I can't use it. I've always > thought it was weird that refactoring was so tightly coupled to editors and > IDEs, so I thought I'd try writing some refactors as an nrepl middleware, > that would ideally be able to be used across editors. I've only > re-implemented the threading and some of the cycling refactors from > clj-refactor.el, but it's to the point where I'm going to investigate > actually integrating with vim or light table. I've never written any > plugins for either of these editors so I might discover there are good > reasons I haven't seen refactoring done as a client/server type thing. > Anyway, the code is here: https://github.com/cgag/nrepl-refactor , if > anyone has any has any feedback I'd love to hear it, and if anyone has > vimscript or lighttable plugin experience and wants to help, that'd be > great as well. > > Curtis > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
