F2 Rename on class only selects a part of the name

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[severity:I’m unable to use this version] [regression] [worked-in:17.9]
With the following code:

public class GlobalAuthorizationAttribute : Attribute
{
    public List<GlobalUserRightEnum> RequiredRights { get; } = new List<GlobalUserRightEnum>();

public GlobalAuthorizationAttribute(params GlobalUserRightEnum[] requiredRights)
    {
        RequiredRights = requiredRights.ToList();
    }
}
  

Expected behavior: the whole word GlobalAuthorizationAttribute is highlighted and I can edit the end of the name to something else.

When I move the cursor to GlobalAuthorizationAttribute and click F2 Rename or Ctrl+R depends on your keyboard shortcuts setting, then the renaming is possible only in the first part.
I need to rename GlobalAuthorizationAttribute to GlobalAuthorizationAttributeBase.
This is not possible using the feature.

Why do I need to do that?
Because I want to create this code:

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Original Comments

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Shen Chen [MSFT] on 10/8/2024, 04:24 PM:

Hi Jan,

I understand your situation. This is a by-design scenario because we don’t want the Attributes suffix modified. We definitely want to improve this experience.
As a workaround, I tested locally if you comment out the : Attribute, then rename your class to the right name it should work. Later you can comment back the base class.
Thanks for your feedback.

Best,
Shen

Jan Seris on 10/9/2024, 07:50 AM:

OK you should improve the experience definitely. Maybe instead use analyzer and not block the renaming per se?
As for example for private fields and properties - there is a hint shown in Visual Studio but there is no blocking action to prevent that (and that’s probably expected behavior).
This is a much better solution:

[Cosifne]

A few notes:
We will need a better solution to handle renaming the Attribute suffix case.
User is trying to rename

public class Ex$$ampleAttribute : Attribute

to ExampleAttribuiteBase