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[–] krey@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Some IDEs (like Netbeans, Intellij, PhpStorm) can rename only in the scope of the selected item. So if you used variable "a" in 2 methods, it would only rename in the selected method and it understands the variable is different from "ab" and won't replace the "a" part of that.