Bicycle Repair Man usability

[Sybren Stuvel]

Rex Eastbourne enlightened us with:
> Are there any Bicycle Repair Man users here?

I am.

> I recently got PyDev for Eclipse, which comes with BRM.

I use it from VIM.

> I am disappointed with what I've seen, although I'm not sure if I'm
> using its full functionality.

Why would it need more functionality?

> -Rename a function/variable
> -Block of code --> method and a method call

That seems nice to me.

> -Get rid of extra variables by shifting them inline (e.g.:
> a=1;b=2;c=a+b --> c=1+2)

This is already excess functionality IMO. If you're programming like
this and you want it to be replaced by 'c=1+2', you need to learn how
to properly write software. No tool will help you in that. But hey,
that's just my opinion. And I think it should be 'c=3' anyway ;-)

Sometimes I use constructs as 'a, b = 1, 2' and 'c = a+b', but that's
intensional. In such a case, 'a' and 'b' are settings that easily need
to be edited, and 'c' is just a calculation on them. In such a case, I
don't want to see 'c = 3' in my code.

I use BRM if I need to rename a function or variable, and that's about
it. I do the rest by hand faster than I can figure out how to use
additional software.

Sybren
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