On clojureX this year we almost had a panel discussion on editors; it was cancelled at the last minute unfortunately. So I thought why not publish the longer version of the screencast I prepared demonstrating how to use some clj-refactor features in Emacs to clean up a messy namespace.
I highly recommend Parens of the dead to everybody by the way. The series is real joy to watch and demonstrates many things, among them is how to use Emacs with cider and clj-refactor to work with clojure code in a very effective way. On the other hand Magnar uses a certain bunch of clj-refactor features possibly because he builds his project up from scratch. In my brief demo/screencast I'd like to rather demo some features which are very helpful in an other typical refactoring scenario: when you want to clean up an already existing (legacy?!) namespace.
Also both cider and clj-refactor has so many features now that discoverability is an issue. This screencast and the demonstrated use of hydras tries to offer some remedies for that too.
ml move to let
Move the current form to the closest let. More details here. This is an elisp only feature meaning that you don't even need a running REPL to use it.
rs rename (local) symbol
Rename all occurrences of a local symbol. More details here. This is a feature which uses the analyzer to figure out the location of the local symbol therefore you need a running REPL with refactor-nrepl middleware added to it.
is inline symbol
Inline all occurrences of the symbol at point. Can be used both globally and locally. See screencast gif here. Again this is feature needing the analyzer to figure out the location of the occurrences of the symbol you want to inline.
pf promote function
Can promote #(foo %) style anonymus function to (fn [arg1] (foo arg1)) or all the way to first level defn or a (fn [arg1] (foo arg1)) style anonymus function into a first level defn. See details here. Again this needs the analyzer.
ef extract function
Extract the form at point, or the nearest enclosing form, into a toplevel defn. Newly created function is either private or public, depending on cljr-favor-private-functions. See a screencast here. This needs the analyzer as well to figure out which locally bound vars the s-expression uses that need to be turned into arguments in the new function.