I use vim as my editor but I would like to get some of the same power of the IDE's for java when it comes to refactoring. Are there any commandline tools for refactoring java? I could probably hack something together using perl or vim scripting but if there is something already out there I'd rather use that.
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1What are you trying to achieve? – Peter Apr 01 '09 at 04:49
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3mostly just renaming classes, methods and variables across files. That's my most common use case. – Jeremy Wall Apr 01 '09 at 13:31
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are there any not open source command line tools? Any tools would be nice. – jedierikb Jan 06 '13 at 18:32
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Not open source, but may do some of what you want: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28119760/automatic-code-simplification-via-refactoring – Ira Baxter Feb 04 '15 at 06:37
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You could try Eclim. The goal of Eclim is to expose the functionality of Eclipse within Vim. In particular, there are a few commands for refactoring that are supported.
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Check out jrefactory, and its command line option.
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2Yeah, not that sophisticated. I use IntelliJ and Netbeans, though. – Adeel Ansari Apr 01 '09 at 06:11
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Code refactoring is a very context-sensitive and interaction-heavy process which doesn't lend itself very well to command-line interfaces. There can be dozens of types of refactorings you could do to a particular file (or set of files) and coming up with a vim interface to integrate all of this would be a major challenge.
If you want IDE functionality, why not use an IDE? Especially with Java, which lends itself so well to automatic refactoring by a complex piece of software like Eclipse.
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I would strongly advise you to use VIM within an IDE (e.g. VIMPlugin and Eclipse - this is the combination I use and it works very well).
I used to be a VIM diehard. However the refactoring and code analysis within a modern IDE will far surpass any capabilities that VIM will provide (with plugins etc.).
Don't get me wrong. I love VIM and still use it for all sorts of stuff. Modern IDEs are the most productive route forward, however.
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1I've tried those but the vim plugin doesn't give me any of the ide benefits. I might as well just use vim and the ide side by side. – Jeremy Wall Apr 11 '09 at 15:18
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modern IDEs are to heavyweight. hate waiting almost a minute to open a large project or switch workspaces. – JoaoHornburg Jan 09 '12 at 18:58
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I know this is an older question, but I was asking myself this question a bit back and decided to write one. It's new and it not "super awesome yet" but it's written in GOLANG and it's open source. DISCLAIMER, this is my project but I am not self promoting. I just thought I'd share with others that care about something of this nature.
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1All as it is basically a recursive find/replace for both files and the file system – Arash Sharif Jun 25 '14 at 16:14