eclipse-xtext / eclipse-xtext/xtext

Rename refactoring takes the first occurance - even in comment - to start linked-editing

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Description

// MyClass
class MyClass { ...

Starting renaming of MyClass will start the renaming in the comment.

org.eclipse.xtext.ui.refactoring2.rename.DefaultLinkedPositionGroupCalculator2.createLinkedGroupFromReplaceEdits(List, XtextEditor, String, SubMonitor)
This takes the whole text of the "class", which is inclusive the comment. Then searches in there for "MyClass" and finds the position of the comment as the first (and only) result position.

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Start at org.eclipse.xtext.ui.refactoring2.rename.DefaultLinkedPositionGroupCalculator2.createLinkedGroupFromReplaceEdits(List, XtextEditor, String, SubMonitor) and reproduce the issue with the provided class declaration and comment. Trace how the whole class text is searched for MyClass; done means rename linked-editing begins at the declaration rather than the comment.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
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