[cdt-dev] Refactoring idea

[Alec Teal <a.teal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey all,

A really simple yet really useful refactoring to offer would be to pull 
method definitions out of a class and stick them somewhere else (to 
clipboard for example).

How many times have you accidentally defined methods while writing the 
class, I'd love to just highlight a block and have it leave the 
declarations and put something I can just copy and paste into the code 
file for me. It'd be great if it could also remove variable names.

Example:

class A {
    U f(V x) {
        /*blah*/
    }
};

To:
class A {
    U f(V);
};

With:

U A::f(V x) {
    /*blah*/
}

On the clipboard (or something)

I think it'd be easy enough to do. Carry forward any surrounding tokens 
provided it's not "virtual" and such. Even constructor initialiser lists 
wouldn't be a problem.

I suggest this because it's a task could (almost) be accomplished by 
little more than a regex rule. It'd save me a lot of time.

Alec