Expose a lua API or ex commands for renaming without nvim-tree?

[IndianBoy42]

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[chrisgrieser]

Also came here for this. I don't use a file tree plugin at all and installing one just for the LSP renaming operation feels a bit bad

[antosha417]

Yeah, I totally agree. Would be a great addition to the plugin. @IndianBoy42 how would you like the api to look like?

I think for now you can just call this function before moving the files around.
https://github.com/antosha417/nvim-lsp-file-operations/blob/master/lua/lsp-file-operations/will-rename.lua#L23-L38

require('lsp-file-operations.will-rename').callback({old_name: "path/to/file", new_name: "new/path/to/file"})

[chrisgrieser]

for the API, something like these seems fine to me?

require('lsp-file-operations').rename({ old_name = "foo", new_name = "bar"})

edit: old_name should be optional, defaulting to the current file

[antosha417]

@chrisgrieser, do you want it to actually move the files? after calling callback

There should also be a way of specifying which callback you want to call. Right now we have only will-rename but lsp spec supports others. Like did-rename. Or should we call all of them?

[antosha417]

I don't have a lot of time to work on this for now. You can try it in your local config and open a pr if you want. I'll happily merge it

[bugabinga]

@chrisgrieser are you planning to integrate this into genghis wink wink ? :)

[chrisgrieser]

@bugabinga No, but I'll gladly accept a PR if someone would wink wink :)