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In Eclipse, how do you rename / refactor all names that occur AFTER the current one

I have a block of about 20 lines of code that heavily uses a specific variable name many times.

I want to copy those lines of code to create another one of these variables, obviously using a different name.

So I click on the variable name in the its declaration of the new block of code. But when I press ALT + SHIFT + R to Rename it and all the subsequent ones, Eclipses highlights every single one in the document and slates them for change.

How do I specify that I only want the following variables to be selected?

Solution

  • I discovered that what I'm trying to do works if I'm redeclaring an earlier variable.

    For example if I said:

    SomeClass something = new SomeClass(Stuff, Stuff);
methodCall1(Something);
something.coolMethod();

    and wanted to copy and paste that as another object and rename the variable, I would just copy/paste it, and put the pointer in the new something,press ALT + SHIFT + R and only subsequent something would be highlighted for change. 

    SomeClass anotherThing= new SomeClass(Stuff, Stuff);
methodCall1(anotherThing);
anotherThing.coolMethod();

    I believe this is because I have redeclared the variable, so Eclipse knows not to go before it. However if I was copying a series of method calls made by one object and trying to rename them to work with another object, I couldn't use ALT + SHIFT + R