Can you rename functions in Visual Studio Code for C++?

Question

Does Visual Studio Code (VSC) have a genuine renaming feature for C++? I know I can replace strings, but this causes errors when I try to rename a function whose name is an infix of another function.

This feature does exist for other languages in VSC and Visual Studio 2017 (which I used before) does come with it, too. I moved from Visual Studio to VSC for my little project because I need a terminal window and I prefer having it within the mainwindow of my IDE.

I'm using VSC 1.12.2

Answer 1

Finally renaming was implemented in C/C++ extention the version 0.26.0-insiders

Answer 2

Unfortunately, you cannot. However, as of writing this it is the second most upvoted feature request in the vscode-cpptools plugin. The most upvoted feature request happens to be an improved find all references feature which works across translation units. Since 'find all references' is a prerequisite for renaming/refactoring we will hopefully see something soon.