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10 Eclipse Navigation Shortcuts Every Java Programmer Should Know

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Man, I’m such an impatient guy. I cringe whenever I see somebody squint and frown, looking for a JSP file in Eclipse by browsing painfully through the gazillion JSPs in multiple folders in the Package Explorer. I squirm whenever I see somebody looking for a Java class by clicking through packages, one by one, backtracking if it’s the wrong package, and so on, until he sees the correct Java class.

I mean, any resource in the workspace is literally seconds away. Ditto to classes (and interfaces, and members, and so on). Why waste time and brain cycles to wade through countless lines in countless files? I thought that every Eclipse user knows this, in fact, if you’re reading this, most probably you already know this too. But thousands of Eclipse JDT users who never bother to read tech blogs in all probability will also never bother to find out what Eclipse can do for them. And it’s a pity, really, because they’re really missing out a lot. So maybe if you know one, you can forward this to them or something. Make them more productive or something, ya know. 30 seconds saved for every file can add up to really a lot!

So without further ado, let’s say you want to:

  • Open any file quickly without browsing for it in the Package Explorer: Ctrl + Shift + R. This shortcut opens a dialog box that accepts the name of the file you’re looking for. It even accepts wildcard characters, yo. Typing *-conversion.properties will give you the list of all files that ends with -conversion.properties. So everytime you want to open a file–stop that hand from going to the mouse, and press Ctrl + Shift + R instead!

Opening a resource in Eclipse

  • Open a type (e.g.: a class, an interface) without clicking through interminable list of packages: Ctrl + Shift + T. If what you want is a Java type, this shortcut will do the trick. Unlike the previous shortcut, this even works when you don’t have the Java source file in your workspace (e.g.: when you’re opening a type from the JDK).

Opening a type in Eclipse

  • Go directly to a member (method, variable) of a huge class file, especially when a lot of methods are named similarly: Ctrl + O. Say, you’re browsing through a file which has 500+ lines of code. How do you look for a method? Don’t use Ctrl + F and then type the method name. Use Ctrl + O, which gives you a list of candidates that match what you’ve typed so far. Select the member you want using the arrow keys, and press Enter. (Alternatively, if you just want to jump from one member to the next (or previous), you can use Ctrl + Shift + ↓ or Ctrl + Shift + ↑, respectively.) UPDATE: As Nick pointed out in the comments section, pressing Ctrl + O again shows the inherited members. Thanks Nick! :)

Browse Member

ctrl_o_2.jpg

  • Go to line number N in the source file: Ctrl + L, enter line number. Of course if the stack trace is in the Eclipse console, you can just click the hyperlink. But if it’s in a log file or something, just use this shortcut to go to the line in a jiffy.

Go to a line number

  • Go to the last edit location: Ctrl + Q for . If you have a big file, it’s annoying to jump from one location in line 1000+ to 2000+ only to realize after looking at line 2017 that you’ve made a mistake in that location near line 1000+ just now. This shortcut brings you right to where you last edited a file. Very handy in a big file. Gone are the days of “let’s see… where did I edit it again… nope, nope… ah there it is”. (This even works when you’re already looking at a different file.)
  • Go to a supertype/subtype: Ctrl + T. Before I found this, if I want to go to the superclass of a class, I’d go the the very top of the file, hover my mouse over its superclass, hold Ctrl, and click. Disgusting. Now I just press Ctrl + T and I get this dialog below, which toggles between supertypes and subtypes when you press Ctrl + T again.

Subtype hierarchy view

Supertype hierarchy view

  • Go to other open editors: Ctrl + E. I know you can cycle through the editors using Ctrl + F6 as well, but I prefer Ctrl + E because Ctrl + F6 has this annoying behaviour of requiring you to keep the Ctrl key down, and the distance between Ctrl and F6 is so far I have to twist my left hand to do that. Just press Ctrl + E, and either use the arrow buttons, or type the name of the file you’re editing.

Open editor

  • Move to one problem (i.e.: error, warning) to the next (or previous) in a file: Ctrl + . for next, and Ctrl + , for previous problem. No need to lift your hands off the keyboard to click on that red or yellow stripe.
  • Hop back and forth through the files you have visited: Alt + ← and Alt + →, respectively. I have to admit I don’t find myself using these two often, though.
  • Go to a type declaration: F3. Alternatively, you can hold Ctrl down and click the hyperlinked variable or class or whatever it is the declaration of which you want to see–but why lift your hand off the keyboard? Just press F3 and Eclipse will bring you to the declaration of whatever is at the cursor at that moment.

OK, that’s it for this post. There are tons of other Eclipse shortcuts not covered by this article. To see the whole list, just open up your Eclipse (I’m assuming Eclipse 3.2 here–in older or more recent versions this may differ slightly), go to Help → Help Contents → Java Development User Guide → Reference → Menus and Actions. The whole motherload is there, from generating comments, correcting indentations, surrounding with, and so on.

The point I’m trying to get across is: Eclipse has a LOT of shortcuts to make things real easy for you. Java (or heck, any software) development is hard. We shouldn’t make it harder on ourselves by fighting our tools! Let our tools help us as much as possible, so we all can go back on the dot and spend more time with our family, lovers, or whatever it is we want to spend more time on. There’s no honour in working hard inefficiently. Only disgrace.

Written by rayfd

May 20, 2007 at 6:22 am

Posted in Java, Technology

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  1. Sometimes we just don’t spend the time learning how to use our development tools, and keep using Eclipse as a simple text editor. These shortcuts really make development easier. I already use a lot of Eclipse shortcuts, nut nonetheless I didn’t knew some of these :)
    One of my favorites is CTRL+Shift+G, which searches the workspace for references to the selected method or variable.

    Carlos

    May 21, 2007 at 10:40 am

  2. A complete list of shortcuts can be seen with Alt-Shift-L . Going through that list is sure to teach you a few new tricks about Eclipse :)

    Paul

    May 21, 2007 at 12:45 pm

  3. hi,
    these are great!
    thanks for sharing….

    selman

    May 21, 2007 at 2:22 pm

  4. An addition to the Ctrl + o : doing Ctrl + o once gives you the ability to quick search/jump to methods in the class you have open, doing Ctrl + o twice, gives you the same ability but then for all methods in the current class plus super classes. Very handy!

    Nick

    May 21, 2007 at 2:29 pm

  5. Ah yes, many thanks, Nick! I have updated the post to reflect this :)

    rayfd

    May 21, 2007 at 2:42 pm

  6. selman, great to hear that you find it useful :)

    rayfd

    May 21, 2007 at 2:42 pm

  7. Just today, I was hunting for a file in multiple packages in Eclipse and to find this article an hour later! Needless to say, thank you.
    As purists would say – RTFM. ;-)

    sukija

    May 21, 2007 at 2:58 pm

  8. One of my favorites is CTRL+F6 which gives you the list of files opened in editor. Togo the last file visited CTRL+F6. To go to any other file opened CTRL+(hold) F6

    Venkat Burri

    May 21, 2007 at 3:37 pm

  9. Ctrl+F3 also shows the list of the functions in a class. I never knew Ctrl+o is also mapped to the same dialog.

    Venu

    May 21, 2007 at 4:14 pm

  10. I configured my workspace so that using the sequence Ctrl+PgDn or Ctrl+PgUp will take you to the next or previous open editors in the workspace. The thing that I find much much more useful is that you can assign your beloved key sequences to the actions that you usually perform…

    One more thing, as mentioned in this article, Alt+ -> and Alt+

    Murali

    May 21, 2007 at 5:03 pm

  11. Great post!

    I wish I had some of those in Netbeans.

    cherouvim

    May 21, 2007 at 5:45 pm

  12. Why not…. Netbeans has enough shortcuts and you can assign your own as well.
    NetBeans IDE Keyboard Shortcuts: http://developers.sun.com/jsenterprise/reference/techart/shortcuts.html

    sudharson

    May 21, 2007 at 6:29 pm

  13. Yes, but it’s missing many things that this blog post features here. For example I think it doesn’t have a “Go to a supertype/subtype” (Ctrl + T) or the granularity of CTRL+SHIFT+R that eclipse has.

    thanks

    cherouvim

    May 21, 2007 at 6:52 pm

  14. The “Open Resource” feature is great, but it’s a little limited by the fact that it does not allow you to select multiple entries in the list. Maybe there is a way to accomplish this (that not includes writing a plugin :-) )?

    Johan

    May 21, 2007 at 7:12 pm

  15. I’ve remapped CTRL+F6 and CTRL+SHIFT+F6 to CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB, respectively, so that it switches between files like most other applications. Of course, this screws me when I work on other people’s machines.

    Bobo

    May 21, 2007 at 8:29 pm

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  20. Good summary.
    Thanks for putting this list.

    ashish

    May 22, 2007 at 12:05 am

  21. Um..

    “Man, I’m such an impatient guy. I cringe whenever I see somebody squint and frown”

    For a guy your a pretty exellent writer and honest. To be honest I like people squiting it’s funny.

    Kaida Rose

    May 22, 2007 at 12:53 am

  22. Great :)

    Samiha Esha

    May 22, 2007 at 1:55 am

  23. Working Smarter

    I agree with rayfd. It is highly annoying watching a developer struggle to find something in the package explorer when one simple keystroke will get them where they want to go. Check it out, and drop a note letting him know you appreciate his efforts…

  24. Here are somemore useful shortcuts

    Breakpoints Shift+Alt+Q B
    Cheat Sheets Shift+Alt+Q H
    Console Shift+Alt+Q C
    Java Declaration Shift+Alt+Q D
    Java Package Explorer Shift+Alt+Q P
    Java Type Hierarchy Shift+Alt+Q T
    Javadoc Shift+Alt+Q J
    Search Shift+Alt+Q S
    Show View (View: Outline)Shift+Alt+Q O
    Show View (View: Problems)Shift+Alt+Q X
    Synchronize Shift+Alt+Q Y
    Variables Shift+Alt+Q V

    Anonymous

    May 22, 2007 at 4:06 am

  25. hey! thanks for the info…did u also know that you can press ctrl-alt-h to display call hierarchy? also you can easily indent your code lines by pressing ctrl-I(as in the letter “I”)…have a good time coding and hope to have more correspondence with you! :)

    iodugeno911

    May 22, 2007 at 6:33 am

  26. Good One!! Thx

    harshaonline

    May 22, 2007 at 6:41 am

  27. What about another post on the java language shortcuts ( like sysout + Ctrl-Esp => System.out.print() … it’s a shame I never need to write this in my code;- )

    laurent

    May 22, 2007 at 7:25 am

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  29. Very useful post. I used a few of these shortcuts already.

    ashikuzzaman

    May 22, 2007 at 9:59 am

  30. You can also find a couple of quick reference sheets for various versions of Eclipse ready to print here: http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/shortcuts.html

  31. To display hierachy view of current class, hit F4 – very useful.

    Boy Eclipse if 4ever; I love it.

    Franklin

    May 23, 2007 at 9:25 am

  32. To display hierachy view of current class, hit F4 – very useful.

    Boy Eclipse is 4ever; I just love it.

    Franklin

    May 23, 2007 at 9:25 am

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  34. Holy crap, Ray. This post is awesome. I’m the king of taking 5 years to learn a useful shortcut. Open Reference, Type, and Hierarchy are already ones I survive on.. but CTL+Q and CTL+O look like a whole lot of fun. Thanks.

    Phill

    May 24, 2007 at 12:46 am

  35. Great post !

    When editing Java code, I like to be able to manage my imports automatically (Ctrl + Shift + O), and change the incrementation of the code (Ctrl + i).

    Antoine

    May 24, 2007 at 4:59 pm

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  37. I can’t believe you forgot CTRL+3, the latest and greatest navigation shortcut added to Eclipse 3.3M7: http://eclipsenuggets.blogspot.com/2007/05/quick-access-ctrl3-is-bliss-are-you-one.html

    If you’re still using Eclipse 3.2.x, that reason alone should make you want to step up to the latest. Why wait until the end of June? ;-)

    Nick Boldt

    May 26, 2007 at 12:59 am

  38. Nick, that’s good to know–thanks! :) Yeah, I’m still using Eclipse 3.2.x. We’re using a bunch of plugins for our project, so we’re not risking moving to 3.3 yet now. But that’s something to look forward to for sure.

    rayfd

    May 26, 2007 at 1:42 am

  39. You probably have forgotten to include Ctrl-Shift-O which automatically organizes import, quite useful when you’re getting red underlines due to unknown class declarations and warnings on unused imports.

    Allan

    May 26, 2007 at 10:57 pm

  40. Hi Allan–not at all! I’m featuring only 10 shortcuts, so obviously a lot of other shortcuts will not be featured although they’re certainly not forgotten. But more importantly, the shortcuts in this post are _navigation_ shortcuts, and Ctrl + Shift + O is not one of them.

    rayfd

    May 27, 2007 at 12:29 am

  41. Brilliant! I wished I could digg this here, where’s the digg button?

    ;-)

    Cheers,
    yc

    Yuen-Chi Lian

    June 16, 2007 at 4:41 pm

  42. Hi Yuen-Chi, thanks! I just added the button :)

    rayfd

    June 17, 2007 at 10:06 am

  43. i just installed ecllipse n surfing to get some tips abt working on it n found this one very helpful.
    thnx buddy

    techna

    June 25, 2007 at 12:44 pm

  44. I’ve always found ctrl+h for searching particularly useful…

    Gautam Vasudev

    June 26, 2007 at 12:21 am

  45. Really good it saved a lot time ..
    Can you please publish the shortcuts for some methods in eclipse so that i dont need to type full name of it.

    Dhakar

    July 18, 2007 at 6:25 am

  46. good…very good help

    ramesh

    July 26, 2007 at 11:13 am

  47. good ………….. very good

    laxmi

    July 30, 2007 at 10:40 am

  48. Refer this site for all eclipse navigation shortcuts

    http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/shortcuts.html

    Ashwini

    August 1, 2007 at 6:19 am

  49. I’m new to Eclipse shortcuts and one thing I noticed was that CTL+O and CTL+F3 are different. CTL+O will give the class members of the current file. CTL+F3 will give the class members of the currently selected class within the file. If a class isn’t selected then it then it will default to the action as CTL+O

    hxp

    September 12, 2007 at 6:40 pm

  50. On a java class like JFrame, or on its method I pressed F3, it was not showing any description. F3 IS NOT WORKING IN MY ECLIPSE ENVIRONMENT. Please help me out. I dont know how to change the configure settings so that F3 start working properly.

    Ekta

    September 14, 2007 at 7:00 am

  51. Very useful, can save lot of time in searching

    Selvaraj

    September 18, 2007 at 8:15 am

  52. You almost read my mind while coming up the list of short cuts. These are precisely the shortcuts that a Java developer craves for during the course of his Eclipse usage. Thanks a ton!

    Dayanand

    September 28, 2007 at 4:06 pm

  53. Really useful. Thanx a lot !

    sazzad

    September 28, 2007 at 5:50 pm

  54. Use Ctrl+Shift+L to view most of this listings.
    Doing Ctrl+Shift+L again will open the KEY window where you can change/add new Key Maps

    HTH’s
    :) eepak Kaul

    Deepak Kaul

    October 11, 2007 at 11:08 pm

  55. Great Post. It increased my productivity.

    Is there any shortcut that will help me avoid using the arrow keys ? I don’t like the frequent journeys to the arrow keys while coding.

    Just something like Vim, that uses like I, J, K, L as the arrow key ?

    Mahmudul Hasan

    November 21, 2007 at 11:08 am

  56. Regarding Ctrl + Shift + T and wildcards….

    One of the nice features about the Open Type dialog (Ctrl + Shift + T) is that you can type just the uppercase letters in a class name, and it will display all classes with that sequence of uppercase letters. So if you type NPE, the results will contain NoPermissionException, NullPointerException, etc.

    This feature makes it really easy to search for classes with long names.

    Mike E

    December 6, 2007 at 10:16 pm

  57. very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
    Idetrorce

    Idetrorce

    December 15, 2007 at 1:13 pm

  58. I would like to see a continuation of the topic

    Maximus

    December 20, 2007 at 10:34 am

  59. Nice List..
    I do use most of them
    Thanks specially for the Ctrl + E
    I was thinking of the shortcut for this for long…

    Can anyone tell Whats the shortcut to find the next occurance of the string that you tried to find using Ctrl + F

    F3 doesn’t seem to work here as in other editors..

    Bijay Rungta

    January 24, 2008 at 2:56 pm

  60. Very nice! A few of these I use all the time but some others were new to me. One of my favorites that’s not on the list is Ctrl + Alt + H = Open Call Hierarchy.

    Mandy

    January 24, 2008 at 5:23 pm

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  62. :)

    very nice

    January 30, 2008 at 12:56 pm

  63. Ray,
    for me the main problem was remembering all the neat shortcuts I wanted to use. Finally I wrote an Eclipse plugin MouseFeed (http://www.mousefeed.com/) to help me with that. If you call an action with a mouse click, the plugin will remind the keyboard shortcut for it. You can even tell it to force you to use keyboard shortcuts – the actions called by mouse won’t run. The configuration is action-specific.
    Please take a look and let me know what you think.

    Andriy

    February 5, 2008 at 2:40 pm

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  65. Does Ctrl + Mouse Click go to a Type declaration in Eclipse?

    I’m using Europa, but the click shortcut doesn’t seem to work.

    Gavin

    February 20, 2008 at 5:01 pm

  66. Does anyone know why Ctrl-E lists the files in two groups?
    Yes, I know that the bottom group is the ones for which
    the tabs are currently visible, but when I’m searching for
    a buffer, I’m supposed to remember which buffers are
    have tabs that are currently visible? Is there any way
    to just list all the buffers, alphabetically?

    Michael Boyle

    February 21, 2008 at 8:17 pm

  67. very usuful tips and these are helpful to me a lot

    this feature is good

    March 29, 2008 at 1:35 pm

  68. thank you so much..

    sen

    April 1, 2008 at 5:03 pm

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  71. Hi All,
    I have a problem with WSAD5.1 Editor. when I clicked left mouse button with Holding down the ctrl key on any variable or mathod in a file then that method declaration is opening in a new window. now the problem is that I am able to see only the declaration in that file and not full file. while previosly I was able to see the full file.

    please if you know the solution or is it due to some setting changed then please let me know ASAP.

    Thanks

    Amit Bansal

    April 22, 2008 at 7:58 am

  72. Thanks…

    Sri

    May 2, 2008 at 8:18 am

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  74. Note that on mac the keys are slightly different — browse resources is command+shift+R. Go figure :)

    roger

    May 16, 2008 at 8:15 pm

  75. The information is very usefull. Thanks a lot

    vijay

    May 29, 2008 at 7:20 am

  76. Useful tips. Am sure it will save some time for me. Thanks a many!!

    S.K.Ramachandran

    June 3, 2008 at 7:21 am

  77. Alt + Shift + R on the name of a variable allows you to rename it, and it will change all the references on the file.

    rober

    June 19, 2008 at 8:27 pm

  78. nice article :) here is the summary

    Open any resource: Ctrl + Shift + R

    Open a type: Ctrl + Shift + R

    Go directly to a member (method, variable): Ctrl + O

    Go to line: Ctrl + L

    Go to the last edit location: Ctrl + Q

    Go to a supertype/subtype: Ctrl + T

    Go to next problem Ctrl + .

    Hop back and forth through the files you have visited: Alt + ← and Alt + →

    Go to a type declaration: F3 on the variable

    Go to a type declaration: Ctrl down and click the hyperlinked variable

    Khaled

    July 2, 2008 at 6:02 am

  79. oops,
    Open a type: Ctrl + Shift + T

    Khaled

    July 2, 2008 at 6:03 am

  80. Ctrl +Shift + L will show list of all the shortcuts used in Eclipse. It is really helpful to learn shortcuts with that. If you forgot just use Ctrl +Shift + L to have a quick look at them.

    Sandarenu

    July 20, 2008 at 10:09 am

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  82. Hi, Its a great pleaseure to thanks all for this valuable information , keep rocking,
    Can any one tell the shorcut to apply predefined error solution for our errors in our coding

    Davenci D R P

    August 25, 2008 at 10:38 am

  83. Great post. Thanks.

    Alin

    August 25, 2008 at 1:04 pm

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  85. Great tips, going to save me some time

    Sean K

    September 25, 2008 at 6:40 pm

  86. Hi guys,
    I have been using eclipse for quite a while now but haven’t been able to find a particular which I think exists.
    Many sites offer code with line numbers, when we do a copy/paste the line numbers too get copied, Could anyone suggest a shortcut to remove all the unwanted line numbers at once?

    The post is awesome,
    Thanks

    anamupota

    September 26, 2008 at 4:11 am

  87. Great article, cheers!

    I actually do use alt quite a lot already, I find them pretty useful.

    My top shortcut you didn’t mention is
    ctrl shift p
    to switch between opening and closing braces.

    sam

    September 30, 2008 at 4:53 pm

  88. Anyone know of a shortcut that stacks declarations? F3 takes you to a declaration, but is there a shortcut to get you back to where you were? Another editor I’ve used will actually stack the jumps to var/method/class declarations, so you can jump to a declaration, browse around, then jump to another declration, etc. When you’re done, you can backtrack to where you started. Is there a counterpart to F3?

    Bruce

    September 30, 2008 at 8:39 pm

  89. Anyone know of a shortcut similar to Ctrl+O but that looks for methods/members in all the workspace?

    Sometimes I want to jump to a function directly without having to Ctrl-Shift-R to its class.

    j

    October 23, 2008 at 8:26 am

  90. thnx

    jegan

    January 7, 2009 at 11:48 am

  91. I was one of those searching for classes, methods and packages with great difficulty. but no longer…

    Thank You!

    Aroon

    January 16, 2009 at 6:42 pm

  92. Very nice list – a couple I find myself using all the time are :

    Back: Reveals the previous editor location in the location history. Alt + Left

    Forward: Reveals the next editor location in the location history. Alt + Right

    All the Best,
    Jonathan

    Jonathan

    January 20, 2009 at 12:48 pm

  93. kickass article on eclipse man ….very nice ..loved it

    Satish

    February 4, 2009 at 4:58 am

  94. Superb article, Great Work!

    I actually do use alt quite a lot already, I find them pretty useful.

    Saurav K. Mehta

    February 6, 2009 at 12:21 pm

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  96. Thanks! Really useful shortcuts list and very well explained.

    Andrea Bresolin

    February 16, 2009 at 8:46 am

  97. good work !!!!!Also thankyou .

    shashikant

    February 18, 2009 at 6:13 am

  98. Nicely done mate ;)

    Arif Octovian

    February 25, 2009 at 3:46 am

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  100. Best intro article on Eclipse keyboard shortcuts, after learning which one could easily be motivated to learn and use most other Eclipse shortcuts as specified in its 2-page shortcut default conf cheat sheet.

    James

    March 20, 2009 at 5:23 pm

  101. this article is awesome
    can anyone tell me if there is a way to link files to one another. I know you can provide links using Javadoc comments, but that has limitations that it will only link to other Java files and they must be in the same package.

    What I would like is all three: My Java file, the related Junit test case and the related Junit tescase(usually a .cpp file) should have links to each other.
    And these reside in different packages, and I cannot put them together.

    Simar

    March 27, 2009 at 3:54 pm

  102. I meant Java Code, JUnit test case, and test DATA(the .cpp file)

    Simar

    March 28, 2009 at 2:28 pm

  103. Hey, great compilation!
    But you forgot another really helpful one:

    Ctrl-3 opens a quick search for basically EVERYTHING you can do in the menus. (Show a particular view/perspective, generate getter/setter, commit to svn)

    Stefan

    April 1, 2009 at 3:10 pm

  104. Wow, thx, that’s helpfull for nub like me XD

    Widya Perwira

    April 7, 2009 at 8:07 am

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  106. Re: switching between editors/files.
    As soon as I install Eclipse, I like to immediately remap the next/previous editor shortcuts to ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab.
    As natural as switching tabs in Firefox – this is the number one shortcut I end up using on a daily basis.

    Artem Russakovskii

    May 10, 2009 at 6:15 am

  107. Thanks,

    behrang

    May 11, 2009 at 4:19 pm

  108. fbf

    dfd

    May 28, 2009 at 7:02 am

  109. Very thanks my friend.They are very usefull.

    iemre

    June 25, 2009 at 8:13 am


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