Hacker News Reader

Comment by MistaGobo | Hacker News Reader

Renaming variables should be done using an LSP, not find/replace.

I'd try to avoid using your mouse altogether; because it's faster and for me, avoids neck/shoulder strain.

Also, I'd recommend oil.nvim which is great for doing file exploration and manipulating. You can edit/move filenames naturally in a vim buffer, and then save to apply changes.

View on HN

I agree, but not all LSPs support this for what it's worth. For local variables it's not really a big deal, for global references I just find all references and change in each buffer.

How do you rename it with LSP?

For now I got to setting up LSP configs and servers for a few languages but didn't get into using it yet besides getting extra syntax highlighting.

use `vim.lsp.buf.rename` to rename using lsp. for example i use `vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>rn", vim.lsp.buf.rename, opts)` to rename.

Thanks for the pointer!

require('lspconfig')['tsserver'].setup{ on_attach = on_attach, ... }

local on_attach = function(client, bufnr) vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>rn', vim.lsp.buf.rename, bufopts) end

try something like:

    vim.keymap.set('n', 'gr', function()
      local clients = vim.lsp.get_clients({ bufnr = 0 })
      for _, client in ipairs(clients) do
        if client.server_capabilities.renameProvider then
          vim.lsp.buf.rename()
          return
        end
      end
    end)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com