From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-08-19T04:36:07+09:00
Subject: Re: IDE vs. editor

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:44:06AM +0900, bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Aug.18.02@telemark.stanford.edu wrote:
> >> - - I can do all this in Emacs and have a powerful editor. Is it
> >Same questions to you: how do you have a method's renaming propagate,
> - - You need a ruby version of etags. Then it's just a simple
>   matter of using tags-query-replace. The hard bit is a ruby
>   version of etags. 

I heard about etags supporting ruby, but never managed to get it work,
probably because I never used etags with any other language and I
don't know how it is supposed to work when it does.  Sounds like it's
time for another try.

I wonder, though, what tags-query-replace does.  If I modify `class
MyClass; def meth; end; end' into `class MyClass; def new_meth; end;
end', will the various my_instance.meth throughout the code be changed
into my_instance.new_meth?  It doesn't seem very likely -- for one
thing, how would Emacs know that my_instance is an instance of MyClass
and not anything else?

> I said it was possible, not that I knew exactly how to do it %-)!

Hey, you said you could do it, I just yearn to know how! :-)

Massimiliano