ast-grep

The relevant points have already been made: (1) LSP is a JSON-RPC protocol, not a CLI app, and (2) Language Servers that implement LSP often utilize AST manipulation, even the resultant manipulations are exposed to the client via character ranges. Still, these links may be of interest: TypeScript’s language-service implementation of the “Move to file” refactor: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/src/servic... Documentation for how `typescript-language-server` exposes that refactor as an opt-in code action: https://github.com/typescript-language-server/typescript-lan... `ast-grep`, an AST-based search and transformation tool that may be closer in spirit to the cli functionality you describe, albeit more general-purpose: https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep

In general, yes, I might use an LLM for a tedious refactor. In this case I might try <https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep> though.

Text surely is a hill, but I believe it's a local one, we got stuck on due to our short-sighted inability to go into a valley for a few miles until we find the (projectional) mountain. All of your examples work better for code with structural knowledge: - grep: symbol search (I use it about 100x as often as a text grep) or https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep - diff: https://semanticdiff.com (and others), i.e.: hide noisy syntax only changes, attempt to capture moved code. I say attempt, because with projectional programming we could have a more expressive notion of code being moved - sed: https://npmjs.com/package/@codemod/cli - version control: I'd look towards languages like Unison to see what funky things we could do here, especially for libraries. A general example: no conflicts due to non-semantic changes (re-orderings, irrelevant w

you might like this one: https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep ... it sounds like you'd get some mileage out of it.

And https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep maybe

How does this compare to https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep

ast-grep is based on tree-sitter parsers and most of the time is spent on parsing. There is some optimization to [skip parsing](https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep/blob/9f8ed5fb2abf35d928...) but generally I don't expect ast-grep can beat ripgrep or amber. (but sometimes ast-grep can beat grep due to parallel processing)

Hey! ast-grep author here. I believe what you want is probably what https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep can help you. More specifically for the "string constant" search/replace, you can see the playground example! https://ast-grep.github.io/playground.html#eyJtb2RlIjoiUGF0Y...

Reminded me of https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep and I wonder how it compares in performance and functionality.

Is it possible to combine n-gram and AST to dump a better indexing? Take `sourceCode.toString()` as an example, the AST can dump it to `sourceCode` and `toString`. A further indexer can break `sourceCode` to `source` and `code`. For ast dumping, project like https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep can help.

Congrats from ast-grep team! Nice job Morgante! GritQL shares a lot of common ground with ast-grep, which is also a code rewriter based on tree-sitter. Interested folks may wonder about their difference. The key difference is that their surface APIs are quite different. GritQL is more like a DSL (or SQL). while ast-grep is more like pattern language + embedded configuration in YAML. Check it out here if you are interested https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep

This looks great, thanks for building and sharing it. Interested folks may also want to check out ast-grep: https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep

Something I find really interesting about this is the way the tool is packaged. You can install the CLI utility in four different ways: https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/quick-start.html#installati... # via Homebrew brew install ast-grep # via Cargo cargo install ast-grep # via npm npm i @ast-grep/cli -g # via pip pip install ast-grep-cli # I tested and pipx works too: pipx install ast-grep-cli I really like this - it means the tool is available to people with familiarity of any of those four distribution mechanisms. You can also download pre-built binaries from their releases page: https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep/releases/tag/0.14.2 On top of that, they offer API bindings for it in three different languages: - Rust (not yet stable): https://docs.rs/ast-grep-core/latest/ast_grep_core/ - JavaScr