Allow to open a copy of decompiled Minecraft class for editing (to be able to rename local variables)

[Barteks2x]

The one problem I have with understanding parts of MC code is that local variable names are meaningless, and I have to keep track of them. This is very annoying and slows me down a lot. It would be a lot nicer if I could edit them directly in decompiled code, without copying it to my own code and wasting 10 minutes trying to make it compile.

[DenWav]

I assume you're meaning to open it as a scratch (virtual) file, rather than something which would actually be in the project?

[Barteks2x]

Yes, something like that. Ideally editing the file directly would be possible, but that isn't something I would expect to be doable from a plugin.

Ideally that edited version could be saved so that I wouldn't easily loose it.

As I said, the only purpose of this would be to be able to rename variables inside these classes, if this is possible to do in any other way - it would be fine too.

Adding these files to my project manually is possible, but it quickly gets messy.

[DenWav]

The sources are retrieved from the jar provided by setupDecW, so don't expect to start editing them any time soon. Best option would probably be to just cache the changes in the .idea directory so they are persisted, while not cluttering the project.

[Barteks2x]

I know editing them directly would be an issue, so that's why I just want to be able to quickly make a copy for editing, that actually compiles and has full autocomplete support.

[Bluexin]

How about adding them to a local mappings file? wouldn't that work?

[Barteks2x]

There are no mappings for LVT. And local variables is what I want to rename. Sometimes a bit of code rearrangement and comments are also useful (for example using early return instead of if)

[DenWav]

I'm still not quite sure if I totally understand how this should be implemented in any way that would actually be useful.

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[DenWav]

Coming back to this I think I have an idea of how this could be done in a useful way. Don't know when I'll get to this, development on the plugin has slowed down a lot lately. Not sure when it'll pick up again.