Auto Rename Tag

[bmix]

I just realized, with the help of @angelozerr at lsp4xml/#362, that synced renaming and deletion of two tags, that belong together, may best be done via some simple text manipulation on the client side. I now have installed a little extension into VSCode, that does just that (minus paired delete, sadly), but it may well fit also into your project, so to keep things together.

[fbricon]

@angelozerr @xorye @NikolasKomonen that feature is now available for HTML tags: microsoft/vscode#47069. Would be nice to extend it to XML as well.

[angelozerr]

Thanks @fbricon for this great news! It seems we should support

• a custom request MatchingTagPositionRequest on LSP4XML (server side)
• that we should consume on vscode-xml (on client side).

See commit at microsoft/vscode@0d25d0a

But pay attention with this feature, it seems that there are some trouble microsoft/vscode#85715

[octref]

@angelozerr The bugs you pointed are already fixed. To implement this feature for XML, you can support MatchingTagPositionRequest on the server and reference the implementation in our HTML server.

[angelozerr]

The bugs you pointed are already fixed.

Thanks for the information!

To implement this feature for XML, you can support MatchingTagPositionRequest on the server and reference the implementation in our HTML server.

What do you mean with reference the implementation in our HTML server ?

@fbricon I think we should really implement this very cool feature.

[octref]

@angelozerr https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/extensions/html-language-features/client/src/mirrorCursor.ts

There's nothing in LSP that correspond to adding a cursor. So if you want to implement this, the best you can do is to use VS Code's API like the html language client is currently doing.

Please note that MatchingTagPositionRequest is not an official name.