A crude way to automate a refactoring is to do text manipulation, such as a search/replace to change a name, or some simple reorganizing of code for Extract Variable (119). This is a very crude approach that certainly can’t be trusted without rerunning tests. It can, however, be a handy first step. I’ll use such macros in Emacs to speed up my refactoring work when I don’t have more sophisticated refactorings available to me.
