Shift F6 unpredictable behaviour?

Hello Aardwolf,

dialog is shown for fields, methods etc. For local variables there is a setting
to enable inplace rename in File|Settings|Editor.

Your code snippet works fine here. Seems that you try to rename a field somehow.

Thank you
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Anna Kozlova
JetBrains Inc.
http://www.intellij.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

If I press shift+F6 on a local variable, sometimes I can type directly
in the code and see all other instances of the variable change their
name in real time as I type

In some other cases, when doing the same, I get instead a grey dialog
box in which I have to type the new name and then press Refactor.

For example in this code:

void dummyfunc() {
double aaaa =  45;
double bbbb = 45;
double cccc = bbbb;

for ( int y = 0; y < 502 ; y++ ) {
double dddd = 456.0;
double eeee = 1.0;
double height =150 - dddd;
double n = Math.sqrt(eeee * eeee + height * height );
double ffff = eeee / n;
double angle = Math.acos(ffff);
if(angle > cccc ) cccc = angle;
System.out.println("" + height );
}
}
I can put that function in any class I want. If I put the cursor on
"height" and press Shift+F6, a grey dialog pops up. If I put the
cursor on "eeee" and press Shift+F6, it allows the realtime-typing.

Does that happen to you to or is this only in my intellij and maybe
depending on the project?

What causes the variable height to behave different?

I love the realtime typing thing. But if the grey dialog pops up
instead, then I prefer doing it manually, because even though it's a
local variable, I've had experiences with this grey dialog such as a
name of something everywhere in the whole project being changed so I
don't trust that grey dialog!!

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Original message URL:
http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5256705#5256705

Note that if the name of the local variable occurs in a string or comment somewhere, the rename dialog will pop up. This allows you to optionally locate and rename references to the variable in comments, javadocs or strings too.

Bas