[Lazarus] Renaming an existing unit

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Fri Apr 20 07:15:06 CEST 2012


Sven Barth schrieb:
> On 19.04.2012 19:30, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>> Richard Mace schrieb:
>>  > > What's the best steps for renaming a unit, that is part of an 
>> existing
>>  > > project?
>>  > File -> Save as. And answer yes on the question whether you want to
>>  > update all references.
>>  > Wow, I wasn't expecting it to be that easy/cool :)
>>
>> Not so very cool IMO.
>> The question was how to *rename* a unit. But this is not a rename.
>> It seems to create a copy and you have to clean up the original version
>> yourself.
>> Though better than nothing of course.
>
> Joost did forget to mention that between the Save As and the update of 
> the references dialog there is also a dialog which asks you whether 
> you want to delete the original file.
>
That's good news! Was this added recently?
I remember vaguely that I did the same long ago but if I
remember right I was not asked about deleting the old version.




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