[cfe-dev] Integrating clang-based refactoring tools into IDEs - best practices?

[Richard]

In article <CAOsfVvnRwj36LrGnCRv4y7hi9S+ioEzyJNxaEc=aM-WmLNDrHA at mail.gmail.com>,
    Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:27 PM Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:

> > Every time I've asked about where to put refactoring tools, I'm always
> > told "clang-tidy",
> 
> 
> I'd fine that very curious... (when I say refactoring I usually mean
> "Fowler-style")

Ah, so you're thinking of very general refactorings like Extract
Method, Inline Method, etc.  Over the years I've written up some
refactorings in Fowler style that are specific to C/C++:
<https://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/category/refactoring/>

The refactorings I've been doing in clang-tidy are maybe what you
would call "micro refactorings":

if (b == true) => if (b)

...and yet, these sorts of things are *very* useful from an IDE.  Yes,
you can run clang-tidy and mark these as "fixups" that are available
by applying the suggested patch from clang-tidy, but both the micro
refactorings and the Fowler style ones seem like they'd be better off
in a library that was invoked in a shorter turnaround cycle from an
IDE.  Do you agree?

clang-tidy is batch oriented.  IDEs are interactive.
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