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The renaming feature invokable with Ctrl-R in the editor only works with variables inside a method. It used to work on class properties and methods as well in version 6.5. Currently, moving the cursor over the class member identifier highlights all occurrences in the file (as before) but pressing Ctrl-R does nothing. Right-clicking and selecting 'Rename' returns an error at the status bar saying 'Cannot perform rename here'. Using NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200901250201) on WinXp
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 163313 ***