I am in need to do a refactoring across many files. Go from (defn foo [{:keys [show]}] …)
to (defn foo [{:keys [showing]}] …)
, so essentially rename an argument of a function and its callers. Is this something clojure-lsp could provide?
I don't know the answer to that question, but I do feel like sharing the way that I typically handle things like this, because I think it's a nice, pragmatic solution and I've never found it cumbersome, even in large code bases.
I use https://github.com/dyng/ctrlsf.vim to search for all instances in the code base of a unique (or as close as I can get to unique) string. Then, I either go through and fix them one at a time, or if there are a ton of them, I might do %s/thing/replacement/g
in the results buffer, which ctrlsf handles nicely by saving my changes to each file.
I find ctrlsf utterly indispensable. I use it so often that I've defined a couple of mappings for convenience:
<leader>f
runs :CtrlSF<space>
so that I can type in the string I have in mind and press enter.
In visual mode, <leader>f
runs :CtrlSF <my selection><Enter>
so that I can highlight one instance and search for all instances across the code base.
It's also a nice solution because it works in any code base in any language, not just Clojure.
Another thing I'll do on rare occasions where there are a ton of instances and the replacement is straightforward, is write a Bash script using find
and sed -i
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/vim-macros-and-you Open all files w/ vim that match the pattern using grep:
vim $(grep pattern -rl .)
Then apply a macro that replaces things in vim, saves and goes to the :next
file.I don't think clojure-lsp can do that yet @orestis. This is returned when I try to rename keys in a map or keys that are being destructured: [coc.nvim] Invalid position for rename
I use a similar approach with https://github.com/junegunn/fzf and https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim, complete with a couple of custom mappings too 👌
Sorry, I missed the clojure-lsp
part.
there is also bufdo: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-search-and-replace-across-multiple-files-in-vim/
I also use fzf together with the quickfix window to visit multiple files, but I confess that for this instance I went into vscode and used the mouse 🙂
bufdo is my goto