"""Want to add setters/getters to a Java class? Use YASnippet or SnipMate. Want to rename the local variable foo to bar? Use a scoped regex. Once you grok the power of generic text-manipulation, you can use it everywhere and in ways that IDE users can't imagine."""
Yes, but in a medium-large codebase (and I'd argue in a small one too) generic text manipulation is useless for refactoring compared to proper syntax and context aware manipulation.
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"""Want to add setters/getters to a Java class? Use YASnippet or SnipMate. Want to rename the local variable foo to bar? Use a scoped regex. Once you grok the power of generic text-manipulation, you can use it everywhere and in ways that IDE users can't imagine."""
Yes, but in a medium-large codebase (and I'd argue in a small one too) generic text manipulation is useless for refactoring compared to proper syntax and context aware manipulation.