Mainstream D Programming

[Robert Fraser]

David Brown Wrote:

> The problem is that when one uses a specific-focus refactoring tool, they
> are limited to the transformations that the authors of the tools have
> thought of (which is still a very useful set), but without the
> general-purpose text transformations available in a good programmer's
> editor, one can easily miss other types of refactoring that are also quite
> useful.

Most IDEs have regular expressions, etc. -- the features available in a good "programmer's editor" are a subset of the features available in a good IDE.