"Unused something" compile error should not disable renaming other symbols.

[ohir]

renaming "byLabel" to "byName" not possible because "acuterm.fairbe.org" has errors

Stubbing a function often results in a period of tinkering with names. As of now if you have a bunch of vars declared (eg multiple result parameters from a call) but not all are used yet the F2 rename does not work – because of a compilation error "unused variable".

This is frustrating as some of declared symbols are already used, sometimes in more than one place, but some are not. Safe changing via F2 can not be done unless one adds _,_,_= just to please vscode-go for a second or two.`

The extension should recognize such "coding in progress" state and allow to rename symbols.

[findleyr]

Renaming with gopls does work in the presence of many errors. Can you please share your gopls version (gopls -v version), as well as a reproducer where you would expect renaming to succeed and it doesn't?