[eitland]

First:

> BTW nowadays I mostly work with IntelliJ, but sometimes a script is still the best way to understand the code. For example grepping the git blame output is often very useful. It's never 100% reliable, but it's often good enough.

I see we are on the same page : )

> It can with a proper regex. Mostly. Depending on the language, your patience, and the amount of false positives you are comfortable with.

For everyone else: in any of the three big Java IDEs, and in a number of other cases, you don't need much patience or tolerance for false positives, at least if your code isn't too unreasonable (with any sufficiently expressive language you can of course always fool it by somehow accessing things dynamically).

> I did sth like that (I had bash scripts for common programming "refactorings" and "queries" like "print all classes and methods where this variable is used"). I couldn't use a modern IDE cause we were programming on a legacy linux server through ssh for licencing reasons.

This is awesome!