> you use completion, right? That's interaction?
Very basic one. What I mean is once you get the completion, how do you interact with that view - let's say you want to dig into a type that's displayed. Then you want to get to the longer docs for that type. There's nothing out there that does it as far as I know.
> Wait... you want it as an image?
Yes, the asciiart minimaps are cool, but they really don't have enough resolution for more complex longer files in my experience.
> The best way is probably with bufdo and having all the files opened in a buffer
You see why this is not great, right? That's an extra thing to think about.
> Maybe you don't know what ctags are?
I know. It's step 1 out of many for implementing proper refactoring system.
> but you are asking about "search and replace" right?
Search and replace with language and context awareness. You can diy it in vim or start stacking plugins. Then you can do the same with the next feature (like inserting method stub). But... I can just use an actual IDE with vim mode instead.
> And in that case I would avoid language like "vim doesn't"
Vim doesn't do those things though. There's a whole ecosystem of additions of plugins of the day that add one thing or another. But it turns out it's easier to embed nvim in an ide than play with vim plugins until you get something close to ide. Been there for years, done that, got tired. VS with vim mode has better ide features than vim with all the customised plugins.