[sitkack]

Can you imagine if JetBrains worked their magic on Emacs?!

Years ago, there was a company that made a refactoring engine for C, I believe I paid >100$ for it in the late 90s or early 2000s. It was a standalone server that could communicate with Emacs (I wasn't an Emacs user). For a consulting engagement, I bought this tool and learned Emacs. I printed out a poster that I put on the wall that show the workflow for the most common tasks I needed to accomplish. I could not have completed it without it.

I discussed this with other programmers at the time, and they were somewhat incredulous that I bought software instead of spending 10x the time to complete the task. Knowing when to buy tools is a skill in and of itself.

[sitkack]

http://xrefactory.com/

now OSS https://github.com/thoni56/c-xrefactory

[arkh]

> Can you imagine if JetBrains worked their magic on Emacs?!

No need for a mouse and on-the-fly macro recording and replaying? How many first-born do they want?