Feature Request: Refactoring & Code Generation

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:18 PM NHJ <blauewelt10 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello to all KDevelop Devs,
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> first of all I want to thank everyone for supporting this amazing free
> open source project!
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> Today, I want to make a feature proposal: generally spoken -> Refactoring
> & Code/Implementation generation.
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> I only know a few free/paid programs (e.g. CodeLite), which offer these
> features. Because KDevelop is one of my main tools, I would love to see
> functionalities like auto-implementation of all un-implemented functions in
> a cpp file (use header file as reference) - maybe also with right-click
> menu - and other possibilities shown in the picture below (right-click
> menu).
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> I know, that KDevelop has a standard template which offers the possibility
> to declare (header) and implement (cpp) predefined methods automatically.
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> Although this is helpful, it isn't as dynamic as some other tools (e.g
> CodeLite) allow it to be. From the point of view of productivity, I think,
> that this is an important factor and I'm convinced, that this would be
> worth to become implemented in an upcoming version. Maybe the code could be
> used, which is already present in the "template generator" so far?
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> Any feedback is appreciated.
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> Have fun programming with KDevelop and have a nice
> morning/noon/afternoon/night!
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> P.S.
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> I'm sorry for duplicating the picture, but I don't know whether it is only
> available when being an attachment or when positioned inline.
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Hi NHJ,
I agree it would make sense to have some of these available. Most of the
information necessary to implement them is available too through libclang,
so it's mostly a matter of sitting down and implementing it. Note that many
of these are already implemented.

Best regards,
Aleix
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