[Cuis-dev] Proposed changes to the Push up / Push down refactors

[Mariano Montone]

Hi Hernán,

El 24/5/23 a las 11:08, Hernán Wilkinson via Cuis-dev escribió:
>  that is great!!! but we have to synchronize this changes because I 
> have a student doing his thesis working on similar improvements!!

may I suggest a possible subject for one of those thesis? How about 
structured navigation, selection and editing of Smalltalk code, ala 
tree-sitter, this kind of thing: 
https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/combobulate-structured-movement-editing-treesitter.

For example, I miss the ability to select Smalltalk expressions by 
expression. Instead of having to move the cursor to exact positions, I 
could use let's say Shift+Ctrl+UP several times, and that would select 
the expression at cursor point, then the enclosing expression, etc.

This is also close to refactoring stuff, like variable renaming and 
other things.

I'm not sure about the level of difficulty and how realistic it is to 
implement this as a thesis, but I think the result would be both very 
interesting and also useful.

Cheers,

       Mariano