Refactoring in Vim

Question

Of course the fact that you can refactor on IDEs is priceless for many, I hardly ever do it when I am coding but I may try to do it when editing some one else\'s source. How do

Answer 1

Go

1. The tool godoctor (github) supports several refactoring capabilities

• Rename
• Extract Function
• Extract Local Variable
• Toggle var ⇔ :=
• Add Godoc stubs

There is a vim plugin https://github.com/godoctor/godoctor.vim which makes them available

With cursor in thing to rename:

:Rename 

Highlighting block to extract:

:Refactor extract newfunc

2. vim-go

   • Precise type-safe renaming of identifiers with :GoRename.

3. Language server gopls

   • https://github.com/golang/tools/blob/master/gopls/doc/status.md#rename