I got fed up doing this manually, and wrote the following. I'm know there are pre-existing versions and this isn't probably the best one, but it has one feature I missed: it checks for conflict potential before starting the renaming.
Something like this would be nice to have in Slime, I think. Is there a contrib that would be appropriate for this? Also, this is way too deep in elisp-land for me to feel quite confident that this is a sane way to do this.
(defun ns:slime-rename-symbol-in-defun (old new) "Replace `old' with `new' in the current defun." (interactive "sSymbol to replace: \nsSymbol to replace with: ") (catch 'abort (let ((count 0)) (save-excursion (destructuring-bind (start end) (slime-region-for-defun-at-point) ;; First scan to see if we have conflicts... (let ((size (length new)) (p start)) (goto-char start) ;; KLUDGE: no forward-op for slime-symbols, but this gets most ;; things right when used with SLIME-SYMBOL-AT-POINT. (forward-thing 'symbol) (loop while (and (< (point) end) (> (point) p)) do (let ((symbol (slime-symbol-at-point))) (when (equalp symbol new) (slime-beginning-of-symbol) (when (ns:slime-highlight-y-or-n-p (format "Pre-existing %s, abort? " new) (point) (+ (point) size)) (throw 'abort nil)) (slime-end-of-symbol))) (setf p (point)) (forward-thing 'symbol))) ;; ...then scan again to replace. (let ((size (length old)) (p start)) (goto-char start) (forward-thing 'symbol) (loop while (and (< (point) end) (> (point) p)) do (let ((symbol (slime-symbol-at-point))) (when (equalp symbol old) (slime-beginning-of-symbol) (when (ns:slime-highlight-y-or-n-p "Rename? " (point) (+ (point) size)) (delete-char size) (insert-string new) (incf count)) (slime-end-of-symbol))) (setf p (point)) (forward-thing 'symbol)))) (message "%d occurrances of %s replaced with %s" count old new) t))))
(defun ns:slime-highlight-y-or-n-p (string start end) "Ask a y-or-n-p question using `string' with the region delimited by `start' and `end' highlighted." (let (hilite) (unwind-protect (progn (setf hilite (make-overlay start end)) (overlay-put hilite 'face 'slime-highlight-face) (y-or-n-p string)) (when hilite (delete-overlay hilite)))))
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus