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LSP does not have a standard way to expose things not specified. So, at best you need an LSP server exposing more + the LSP client to also understand it [2]. The best that comes to mind is nvim-jdtls [0]. Maybe at some point the LSP spec could be extended with more refactoring, or maybe there could be a open rewrite LSP server [1]. I wouldn't expect intellij to release a LSP server with all the re", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "No More JetBrains Products for Me"}, {"id": 753602816, "item_id": 47100176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100176", "by": "twic", "date": "2026-02-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "See also OpenRewrite:", "excerpt": "See also OpenRewrite: https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite And i assume any large organisation running a monorepo has some vaguely equivalent tooling for making mass changes. 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