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Since NB 7.0, when pressing Ctrl-R on a variable in the main code of a PHP file, a refactor window opens. When pressing Ctrl-R on a variable that has limited scope, then an "instant rename" action begins (that was always the behavior of NB6). Please allow the user to access to instant rename even in the global scope. The ability to set up a keyboard shortcut specific to each action (instant and refactor) would be a great enhancement. I'm currently working on a huge tree of legacy files. The global refactoring slow and ineffective when I know I'm renaming a local variable (the file does not include() anything). Refactoring produces many false positives (different files that have no include relation but have a variable of the same name). I hope this is not a duplicate ticket. I couldn't find a ticket for this, though many users complained about this change in the mailing list and in the NB dev blog's comments.
I'd very much like this too.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 228240 ***