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Waylon Walker
Waylon Walker

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Rename Python Variables with nvim

I don't use refactoring tools as much as I probably should. mostly because I work with small functions with unique names, but I recently had a case where a variable name m was everywhere and I wanted it named better. This was not possible with find and replace, because there were other m's in this region.

I first tried the nvim lsp rename, and it failed, Then I pip installed rope, a refactoring tool for python, and it just worked!

pip install rope
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Once you have rope installed you can call rename on the variable.

:lua vim.lsp.buf.rename()
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