find usages behavior...

Are you sure you're not selecting the text of the variable rather than
just placing the caret in the variable? This semantically dubious
behaviour has been discussed here :
http://www.intellij.net/forums/thread.jsp?forum=22&thread=58351

N.

Vinay Moharil wrote:

I thought if you ask "highlight usages in a file" (ctrlshiftf7) of a method local variable, it used to highlight the usages of just that variable. Has this behavior changed or am I wrong in my basic assumption?

In 1151, when I do (ctrlshiftf7), I get all usage of a variable named "x" in ALL the methods of that class, not just the specific method where x local variable is defined.

It could very well be that I missed some thread where the behavior was changed. I am just checking...

Not long ago they mentioned that they changed some of the searches
to string-based ones for performance reasons. Not sure whether that
covers your problem and definitely don't like the change in behavior.
Did anyone notice similar "string-based" behavior with "Find usages"?
I think I saw it few times but not sure.

r.


Vinay Moharil wrote:

I thought if you ask "highlight usages in a file" (ctrlshiftf7) of a method
local variable, it used to highlight the usages of just that variable. Has
this behavior changed or am I wrong in my basic assumption?

In 1151, when I do (ctrlshiftf7), I get all usage of a variable named "x"
in ALL the methods of that class, not just the specific method where x local
variable is defined.

It could very well be that I missed some thread where the behavior was
changed. I am just checking...

I think what you said is right. Selecting the text and then ctrl + shift + f7 has a different behavior than putting the cursor in the variable name and then doing ctrl + shift + f7

Thanks for the tip though....

yes, Selecting the text and then ctrl + shift + f7 is "find all
instances of this text string" instead. The controversy is that a very
different function is bound to the same key via the same action, causing
confusions like yours.

Vinay Moharil wrote:

I think what you said is right. Selecting the text and then ctrl + shift + f7 has a different behavior than putting the cursor in the variable name and then doing ctrl + shift + f7

Thanks for the tip though....