3 Levels of Vim Refactoring

We are going to cover the three different ways users could refactor something in Vim. In Vim you can do things many different ways and we are covering three of them:

1. hipster - has telescope but no LSP setup
2. neckbeard - doesn't rely at all on plugins, uses built in vim functions
3. config wizard - has the perfect config set up. and uses LSP rename functionality

There are many ways to do things in vim, its part of what makes it so fun!

chapters:
0:00 - intro
0:52 - hipster refactoring in vim
2:11 - configuration wizard LSP refactoring
4:16 - neckbeard refactoring without plugins
7:00 - wrapping up

[ziggy-dev]

I own a record player, love French press coffee, run a tiling window manager on Arch (btw), but would use the LSP rename. Now I'm having an identity crisis.

[pbnjdev]

Nice video.

Just a minor correction about what the neckbeard would do:

1. The neckbeard would know from experience that `:vimgrep` is painfully slow and would use `:grep` which calls an external grep utility as specified by `grepprg` vim option (`grep -n $* /dev/null` by default, but can be customized to anything else `let &l:grepprg = 'rg --vimgrep --smart-case $*'`)

2. The neckbeard would proceed to run a grep command on the relevant files/directories to exclude unwanted results (e.g. css), like `:grep "@?(p\|P)osts?" path/to/*.rb`

3. Lastly, the neckbeard would run a precise substitution command on the quickfix entries while preserving case-sensitivity and save the modified buffers in one-go, like `cdo | update`.

[nossal]

More options:
- Telescope -> Quickfix -> cdo
- nvim-spretre

[EOGIY]

My notes from video how to refactor:
- buy a vinyl player;
- grow beard;
- poop a lot;
- bookmark this video.
Thank you, Good job.

[starmechlx]

Man, as a new (6 months in) Neovim user, I literally just learned about the quickfix list from The Primeagen like yesterday. Seeing it here again today doubled down that I need to start using this and get comfortable with it. Way too much goodness here.

On a separate note, I just have to say how much I love the aesthetic of these videos. Also, I was a Dracula guy before, but you have turned me into a Catppuccin nerd, so for that: thanks nerd.

[freewarehunter]

I think this might the highest value-per-minute YouTube video I've ever watched.

[dhakhoa]

You should be able to use `:cfdo` instead, which would run the command for all the files, not all entries, in the qf list, especially in this case where you already use %s to substitute the whole file.

[MrSnivvel]

Great info. I know I'll be rewatching the 'neckbeard' part a few times to catch all parts. In my mind, striving to be in both the 'neckbeard' and 'config wizard' camps is going to mean being the most productive in using Neovim.

Thanks for this video, nerd! 🤠

[wiseskeshom]

Thanks to all hipsters the config wizards, neckbeards and nerds, I learn new things about Vim every time I come here. nice work :)

[brentpappas]

Thank you for the video :)

I honestly was expecting the last user to just leave vim and run find+sed directly in their terminal; instead I learned something new!

Also one small tip: if you want to try the last approach to perform a project-wide find and replace, make sure to set awa (autowriteall) beforehand like so: `:set awa`. This will prevent vim from giving you errors about unsaved changes when moving between files with find and replace.

[jds]

Great comparison, I did not know where this was going beforehand and I am usually in the LSP camp, so I thought I already knew the "best" way. The neckbeard approach was new to me, I did not know there is this great builtin way.

[Mr_Smørrebrød]

This "3 levels of ..." is a very nice format! More please 😁

[ethandoescode]

Have been using your neovim for noobs config and adding to it myself for a few weeks. Did not realize that I could use that lsp binding for refactoring haha. I guess I’m transitioning from hipster stage ever so slowly

[DrkGrntt]

This is fantastic! Great timing too, I need to do this in a couple of hours. I'm fairly new to vim, so your content has been super helpful, thanks!

[howuseehim]

You gonna love this, so I quit vim, went to vscode cmd shift f replaced all occurrences, save, went back to nvim looked around to see if someone noticed.

[aayushbajaj]

you know so much. I've been using vim for like 3 years, I don't know this much yet! also your presentation is cool :>

[lukeemhigh]

Great video, as always. I use LSP rename when available and Telescope->Quickfix->cdo when editing stuff like Helm charts or stuff where the LSP does not have the rename functionality baked in. On arch (btw) running a tiling WM (btw).
Thanks nerd!

[ivshofspb]

I do appreciate this approach . Howeve it is still looks like magic and I feel more confident using Notepad++

[gunarcom]

You have some of the most informative videos in the space, thank you!

[PetrenkoAndrii]

Wow! This was something. I have to rewatch this video couple of times being :%s/one/two/g type of vim user. Thanks for cool video!