textDocument/rename

[damieng]

The textDocument/rename protocol lets you rename a symbol and automatically update all associated symbols.

We could implement this with a command and a right-menu button but it would also need a ui for the new symbol unless we could do it inline.

[hansonw]

We've got a UI for that in Nuclide as well. It's a tad heavyweight (since it's designed to support more complex refactorings) so I'm not sure if you'd want to start from there or start afresh.

https://github.com/facebook/nuclide/blob/master/pkg/nuclide-refactorizer

The basic flow is right click a symbol, click Refactor in the context menu, select rename, and then type in a new name. There's also an explicit command for quickly just renaming.

[lierdakil]

What's the status on this? Minimal implementation should be doable in less than 100 lines... For instance, https://github.com/atom-haskell/hie-lsp-adapter/blob/master/lib/main.js#L20

[damieng]

Feel free to send a PR.

[lierdakil]

Sure, I'll see what I can do. Just was checking if anyone's working on it already.

[arxanas]

See also facebookarchive/atom-ide-ui#145 (comment)

[BenjaminNavarro]

I'm not very familiar with Atom extensions development but I'd like to contribute to this issue. Any tips on where to start?