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6 years ago Trust me, if it was possible it'd already be there, but alas. 😉
To my best guess all those other little text boxes are just that, regular inputs, without extension points like that. I think the best hope is https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/53498 and switching over the new built-in sub word navigation unless it would also land in the extension API.
As a workaround you can select the part you want to change before hitting rename.
I often find myself renaming variables with the Rename function and subword navigation doesn't work in that tiny text popup right under the variable name. Instead hitting the beloved alt+arrow behaves weirdly jumping all over the place if not swapping to another tab. Would be good to support subword navigation not just in the main editor window. Many thanks!