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Ever come across a situation where where you have a meaningless local variable 'temp' and you want to rename it to something useful? Did you find find/replace cumbersome? Well Eclipse is your friend. It provides you a easy way rename such variables.

Just place the cursor at the variable and hit Ctrl+1 or choose Edit > Quick Fix and choose 'Local Rename'. Now the variable is shown with a green underline and is highlighted. Now just type in the new variable name and all the references to the variable change simultaneously! This more of the editor is called linked edit mode.