Pre-populate Rename Symbol palette with current value

[alex-ketch]

For me, most of the time when renaming a symbol it's to fix a minor typo or adjust the existing name.
The current behaviour is to show placeholder text that can't be selected or edited, requiring the user to type out the full name of the symbol.

Current prompt

I propose populating both the placeholder and value options to make edits easier. This UX would also bring the workflow in line with how VS Code works.

The change would be made at the following place:

nova-typescript/src/commands/rename.ts

Line 32 in 63a35d0

{ placeholder: editor.selectedText },

I can make the PR if this change sounds good.

Never mind, the InputPalette API doesn't support the value option, only the InputPanel one does. Will report as a feature request on the Nova dev forum.

EDIT: The feature request forum post can be found here.

[apexskier]

This is definitely what I want to do, but as you've seen it's not supported without moving to the input panel, which I don't like as much. Can you link to the thread in the dev forum when you've posted?

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Included in release v2.3.0