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I can't do it reliably enough to tell you how to reproduce this, but I can sometimes get the debugger to let me start to edit things like the name of a variable or the name of a watch, and perhaps other things from that first column.
fixed in main trunk
Verified in trunk
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.