Enhancing Variable Renaming in Vim

Zettel#62

zettelkasten
Published

2023-04-07

  1. Move your cursor over the variable you want to rename.
  2. Press gd to go to the local declaration of the variable.
  3. Press cgn to change the text covered by the last search (the variable name, in this case).
  4. Type the new name and press <Esc> to return to normal mode.
  5. Press . to repeat the rename operation for the next occurrence of the variable. If you want to rename all occurrences in the buffer at once, you can use :%normal ..

Jedi-Vim’s Renaming

While your cursor is on a name: <leader>r (In case of using Jedi-Vim plugin for Python). Also, it does it across multiple files—project wide.