Comments on: ReSharper, day 23: Introduce Variable (and, introducing Ctrl+Shift+R to refactor) http://blog.excastle.com/2007/02/23/resharper-day-23-introduce-variable-and-introducing-ctrlshiftr-to-refactor/ Life, .NET, and Cats Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:14:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Simon Hewitt http://blog.excastle.com/2007/02/23/resharper-day-23-introduce-variable-and-introducing-ctrlshiftr-to-refactor/#comment-5617 Simon Hewitt Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:37:00 +0000 http://blog.excastle.com/2007/02/23/resharper-day-23-introduce-variable-and-introducing-ctrlshiftr-to-refactor/#comment-5617 I don't think that leaving the blue highlighting ('Ditching the Blues') is a bug: it is acting similarly to Ctrl-Shift-F7. <br> <br>With Ctrl-Shift-F7 pressed when the cursor is on a symbol, all instances in the file are highlighted in blue where that symbol is a read usage and in purple where that value is write usage. (if the cursor is in a method but otherwise not on a symbol, then usage of that method are highlighted.) <br> <br>These are additive in that you can choose a symbol, press Ctrl-Shift-F7, choose another symbol, press Ctrl-Shift-F7 and so on. Pressing ESC removes just the last set of highlighting. So I see all of the highlighting as a feature not a bug. <br>(Actually, pressing Ctrl-Shift-F7 multiple times on the *same* symbol means that you need to press ESC the same number of times - that probably is a minor bug as it shouldn't repeat highlighting for an already highlighted symbol anyway and pressing ESC then appears to do nothing) <br> <br> I don’t think that leaving the blue highlighting (’Ditching the Blues’) is a bug: it is acting similarly to Ctrl-Shift-F7.

With Ctrl-Shift-F7 pressed when the cursor is on a symbol, all instances in the file are highlighted in blue where that symbol is a read usage and in purple where that value is write usage. (if the cursor is in a method but otherwise not on a symbol, then usage of that method are highlighted.)

These are additive in that you can choose a symbol, press Ctrl-Shift-F7, choose another symbol, press Ctrl-Shift-F7 and so on. Pressing ESC removes just the last set of highlighting. So I see all of the highlighting as a feature not a bug.

(Actually, pressing Ctrl-Shift-F7 multiple times on the *same* symbol means that you need to press ESC the same number of times - that probably is a minor bug as it shouldn’t repeat highlighting for an already highlighted symbol anyway and pressing ESC then appears to do nothing)

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