Given this line in a test, ${foo}= Create Variable bar In order to remove the keyword using an exact match, the assignment portion is considered part of the keyword name, so something like this must be used: --removekeywords ${foo}=BuiltIn.CreateVariable Where one would expect this to work: --removekeywords BuiltIn.CreateVariable but it does not match. I cannot think of a realistic use case where the assignment portion should be considered part of the keyword for --removekeywords.

Also since the matching is against the full keyword names, this example is misleading: pybot --removekeywords name:HugeKeyword --removekeywords name:resource.* tests.txt

It should have a library name like this: pybot --removekeywords name:MyLibrary.HugeKeyword --removekeywords name:resource.* tests.txt

1) I agree fully that assignment should not be part of the keyword name. Unfortunately fixing this likely to be backwards-incompatible with some tools. Hope we nevertheless get it done in 2.9.

2) Luckily using something like '--removekeywords name:*BuiltIn.CreateVariable' ought to work.

3) In the '--removekeywords name:HugeKeyword' example the idea was that this 'HugeKeyword' is created in the same file as the test case itself. In that case it gets no additional prefix. Please submit a separate issue if you think documentation related to this should be enhanced.

Thanks for the feedback. I had not thought of removing a keyword that belongs to a test suite so the example is correct, it is just not the most common usage. There is no hurry on this. I was just trying to help someone in the user group and stumbled upon unexpected behavior and wanted to report it.

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