D tooling is disappointing

matheus matheus at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 19:31:06 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, 17 August 2022 at 16:58:02 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> ...
> For example, if I rename a variable or a function, I can 
> rebuild the project with :make and then use a command like 
> `:cdo s/oldName/newName/g` to iterate over the resulting errors 
> and replace the old name with the new name. This is a lot 
> faster than having to look at the file + line number of each 
> error message and navigate there by hand.

I may have misunderstood you, but usually in an IDE, all the 
references of the modified/renamed "thing" i.e: variable, 
function, method etc. will be replaced automatically through the 
project or an option will be given for this.

I barely use IDE either, but I have seen this feature.

Matheus.


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