Move selected code to new function

[daxliniere]

Describe the request

It would be fantastic if we could select a block of code, press a keyboard shortcut and the IDE would;

1. ask user for name of new function (textbox popup),
2. automatically create a new function with that name,
3. move that code into the new function,
4. place a pointer to that function in the original function where the moved code was.

Describe the current behavior

All manual, I'm afaid.

Arduino IDE version

2.3.4 release

Operating system

N/A

Operating system version

N/A

Additional context

No response

Issue checklist

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[per1234]

Thanks for your suggestion @daxliniere. Arduino IDE actually already has support for the "Extract to function" capability you are requesting:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/cpp-refactoring#_extract-to-method

However, Arduino IDE is mostly only a GUI. The underlying functionalities are provided by various other tools. In this case, the functionality is provided by a tool named Arduino Language Server. It seems that Arduino Language Server does not provide Arduino IDE with whatever it needs for its the "Extract to function" feature to work. For this reason, the non-functional "Refactor..." context menu item was intentionally removed (though you can still access it via the "Command Palette" and keyboard shortcut): #2027

We are tracking the deficiency in Arduino Language Server at arduino/arduino-language-server#156.

For that reason, and since no action is required in the Arduino IDE codebase (beyond reverting #2027), I'll close this issue.