Please add renaming

[tinganho]

It would be very useful if this tool also supported renaming of variables.

[sean-mcmanus]

I agree.

[greazer]

@tinganho, Renaming is a feature that we consider part of a much larger work-item to implement more intelligent auto-complete (aka Intellisense(tm) in the Visual Studio world) for our extension. We hope to roll that out in the coming months.

[salda]

I agree too. Is there some roadmap or state of the rename symbol feature? The greazer's comment is old and doesn't make sense now, when intelligent auto-complete aka Intellisense is already in VS Code using C/C++ extension. Just the rename symbol is missing :( How is it going?

[sean-mcmanus]

Actually, the IntelliSenseEngine features we have so far are just error squiggles and hover (quick info). We are currently working on getting auto-complete added (it's currently using the old implementation that has issues, such as no local variables and too many invalid results). Unfortunately, we don't have a roadmap for when rename will be implemented.

[antcodd]

Now that reference highlighting is implemented in the September cpptools update, it seems quite awkward that Change All Occurrences changes a different set of occurrences to what are highlighted. Is the rename feature the intended way to do that in other languages? It almost feels like a bug in VSCode now that this inconsistency is created.

[bobbrow]

Hmm... I never thought about that. Reference highlighting only ever applies to a single file at a time but rename works across the entire project so I never made that connection. Unfortunately, "rename" is correlated to "find all references" - which we have not implemented yet - so the addition of reference highlighting doesn't get us much closer to the implementation of rename.

[dprandle]

Hi guys - the extension works great! - just wondering if there are any updates on this issue?

[sean-mcmanus]

@dprandle There are no updates on renaming. When we decide to start working on renaming it will be added to a milestone. It looks like our 5th top up-voted issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc .