What are some of your favorite Eclipse keyboard shortcuts?
Author: Deron Eriksson
Description: This is a listing of some of my favorite Eclipse keyboard shortcuts.
Tutorial created using:
Windows XP || JDK 1.5.0_09 || Eclipse Web Tools Platform 1.5.1
One way to easily improve your speed with EclipseSW is to use keyboard shortcuts rather than your mouse for certain tasks. A couple seconds here and there really add up. Here are some of my personal favorite keyboard shortcuts:
- control-F4 - close current editor window
- control-shift-F4 - close all editor windows
- control-F6 - switch between editor windows
- control-F7 - switch between views
- control-F8 - switch between perspectives
- control-space - code completion
- control-1 - quick fix
- F3 - (or control-click) - jumps to the class/method at your cursor
- F4 - shows class hierarchy
- F11 - launch the last debug configuration (in debug mode)
- Alt-r, followed by t - stop the debug configuration
- F12 - give focus to the editor window
- Highlight text and control-/ - comment/uncomment code
- control-j - incremental find
- control-m - expand/contract current editor window
- control-shift-f - format code
- control-shift-g - searches for references to selected class/method/etc
- control-shift-o - organize imports (automatically fix your class imports)
- control-shift-r - open resource - great search utility
- control-shift-t - open type (Java class/interface finder)
- Standard Windows shortcuts also apply (home, end, control-home, control-end,
control-leftArrow, control-rightArrow, all these in combination with shift, etc)
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