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currently, after changing the name of some class in the explorer, the name is also changed in the class declaration. I suggest that this change will be done by finding all instances of that name in the file and replacing them with the new name. this is needed, because the name of the class may appear in the comments, strings(reflection), and references (e.g. singleton pattern). I can't see why all the instances of this class name in the file should not be replaced automatically, but this enhancement can be configurable. another nice enhancement would be to prompt the user for doing the same for all the files in the file system.
Rename operation of file&class is done in Java module I think. And so I'm moving this enhancement to Java module as well.
Delaying after java module is converted to use MDR in order to find all referencies to the class name; finding referencies in comments is not feasible (and definitely not accurate) though.
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Cleaning up before 4.0 planning
Target milestone was changed from not determined to TBD
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