Mastering Vim

Refactoring Code with Regex and Macros

This chapter will focus on features provided by Vim to support refactoring operations.

We will cover the following topics:

• Using search or replace functionality with :substitute
• Using regular expressions to make searches and substitutions smarter
• Using arglist to perform operations on multiple files
• Examples of refactoring operations, such as renaming methods and reordering arguments
• Macros, which let you record and replay keystrokes