Renaming variable in package specification doesn't affect body

[zakko]

In Developer Version 14.0.6.1988 (64 bit), in Single Document view renaming a variable via "Refactoring > Rename Item..." in package-specification tab doesn't affect any of the variable occurrence in the body tab.

In this specific case the variable to rename is not yet used in another package, because it was newly introduced. So, minimum expectation would be, that "Refactoring > Rename Item..." would work throughout the whole package. At best a renaming accross packages should be possible and working, too. To my experience this feature is mostly common for other IDEs and programming languages.

 

[Marco Kalter]

At the moment the refactoring functions only affect the source in the editor in which they are invoked.

 

[Stew Stryker]

While I think that would be a nice feature, I'm old-school enough to want to make those changes manually!

But then, I learned on punch cards, so that's seriously old-school! ;-)

 

[zakko]

Stew, certainly you would be free to keep on doing it manually.

But seriously, what is the purpose of refactoring > rename a variable in the specification, if it doesn't hit its occurence in the body?

Marko, could this one make it to the enhancement list? Even though I would rather call this a bug - at least from my perspective...