Re: use Elisp to improve your Elisp - some code issues

[Sam Halliday]

On Saturday, 1 August 2015 05:22:35 UTC+1, Emanuel Berg  wrote:
> The tool (code) just searches for regexps in the files whose names match 
> another regexp.

OK, I don't think that would extend itself to use elsewhere unfortunately. I'd 
imagined that you had a "detector phase" and then a "suggestion phase" whereas 
it sounds like it's all in one go with a regex replace.

If there was a way to factor out the suggestion phase into a standalone 
component (which provided a diff and some metadata) then we could definitely 
make use of that in ENSIME in many places. e.g. Something non-intrusive like 
just add a symbol to the gutter and require some further user action before 
showing the diff (which might be multi-file) and allowing the user to accept or 
reject.