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I think this is an RFE for refactoring. I got this opinion from Japanese mailing list. Could you evaluate it? For example, here is the code. $hoge=false; When the cursor(|) is located between 'e' and '=' like $hoge|=false; then try to Ctrl+R to rename, it works. [hoge] is selected and can change the name. It works cursor is located between '$' and 'h'. $|hoge=false; However, when cursor is located at top of the line like |$hoge=false; when I type Ctrl+R, it shows error dialog - it says "Cannot refactor here". I just got a feeling that refactoring should work in this case too.
Works for me in 7.2.